Quotes About Competition

In every sport, at the competitive level, there's always a danger of injury. But there are considerably less chances in body building comparatively, than say in soccer.

Soccer has surpassed, in this country, hockey.

I played a lot of sports growing up. I played soccer.

Now winning is more important and it trumps the way you achieve it. Unfortunately for soccer, the style doesn't matter so much.

Argentina is a powerhouse in soccer.

The sport of soccer in general is very combative. People don't realize it's very one-on-one a lot of times.

Basketball is such a global sport, being second to soccer.

Basketball is huge in France, but not as big as soccer.

My best season at New England was probably my first in charge. We reached the final of the Major League Soccer Cup in 2002, losing in extra time against Los Angeles Galaxy.

Being able to play sports in a school or public environment was everything for me - basketball, soccer, track.

I've been playing soccer since I was about nine-years-old.

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung out in cliques, and it's very hard to get accepted; lots of competition.

I have often said social media is a race to the bottom.

It's become this sort of strange competition about who's in the coolest place, who's in the coolest street. Suddenly we're having to engage with all those social pressures. It's helpful, I find, as a mother and a teacher, to say you've always got a choice.

Obamacare is socialism? Nope - as insurance companies vie to sell new policies, competition within private industry is growing rapidly, with the number of participating insurers growing by 26 percent between 2014 and 2015, and the number of products they offer growing by 66 percent.

There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.

Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away.

You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

All artists are socialists until they see another artist with a bigger house than theirs.

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

There really aren't too many sock companies.

You never see Coke and Pepsi doing attacks to each other. It would depress the product category of soft drinks.

People sometimes have a false view of track and field, that it's kind of soft and kind of friendly. And guys aren't necessarily laughing and joking, but everyone's just friendly and 'ha ha, he he.' I just came in and just was like, 'Nah, I don't know what y'all talking about, but every single time I step on the line, I'm trying to win.'

Soft playing destroys the integrity of the game of poker, and it's wrong - flat out wrong.