Quotes About Competition

What hurts me, and always had done, is picking teams and having to leave players out.

You have to bump or throw a block sometimes. Even when it goes wrong, how many times has it worked? I think it's a matter of picking and choosing your battles. You gotta do what you've gotta do to try to get a win.

As a professional you're always judging each other and picking things out about whether you're better or not than those playing.

When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

There aren't a lot of second chances for second-round picks.

You look at my career, everywhere I went - Miami, Green Bay, Cleveland, Philly - they were always bringing in draft picks and former first-rounders and guys with free-agent deals to take my job.

There are more second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and so on in the big leagues than first-round picks.

This is not the job. We are just playing the game here. I am enjoying the game. I am playing every game as a game of pickup basketball in my hometown.

You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.

For me, every game is a pickup game in front of my house.

Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

I'm aware of the other drag artists with makeup lines, and I celebrate them. The pie is big and there's room for everybody.

When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.

I understand every piece of business in this league.

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.

Everybody wants to come out and win the gold, and sometimes it takes a personal best, sometimes it doesn't. But to be able to have all those pieces come together, it's a great feeling.

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.

Look, we have long known that birds and pigs are mortal enemies. That's just the way of the world. Birds hate pigs.

Dehumanizing sounds so extreme, but when you're fighting for a football at the bottom of the pile, it is kind of dehumanizing.

I've always coached energy, hustling, rushing to the pile, and if it is wiggling, you do hit it because guys are fighting for yardage, and sometimes, you've got to give up the ball because of one inch.