Quotes About Competition

It's gotta be hard when you are a newcomer to this kind of thing, this big political scene and you have somebody like Michael Bloomberg come in with hundreds of millions of dollars, dumping it in.

Playing at Kentucky, before 24,000 people, you have to learn how to grow real fast and play under pressure and playing on ESPN with millions of people watching. Right away, you learn how to play under control.

If you stop and think about it before you compete, you would freeze. If you think about the millions of people watching, the expectation, the consequences of winning, of losing, it's a massive moment in your life.

For anywhere - not Los Angeles, not Miami, not Detroit, Milwaukee - I think for LeBron, and for most athletes, the most important thing is about winning.

There's no better way of getting yourself back into a rhythm and back into game shape than playing a game. You can't really mimic that in practice.

I don't mind a bit of cricket, but it has to be something massive like the Ashes.

In Twenty20s, you have to bowl a lot fuller, especially at the death, and you've got to be mindful of what you're doing. But it's still cricket.

If Uber wants to catch up to Google and be the leader in autonomy, we have to have the best minds. We have to have all the great minds.

Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.

Look, I think playing the way I played, and knowing the game the way I know it, I think I'm going to have a better idea as to what the mindset of each player was.

I have never been in a race where I would do anything to be here. That's a lethal mindset with which girls enter the film industry.

We just have to be in the mindset that we are going to be winning games.

My mindset is to come in and compete.

If we have given everything we can, you are not settling for mediocrity because the better team won. Sometimes you have to have that mindset to be able to improve rather than keep telling yourself you should have won.

I approach every match with that mindset, that this guy is trying to beat you, and it will change his life if he does.

You can't be chasing 338 and still have 5 wickets in the end. It's about mindset and the way you look at the game.

This is the NBA; you can't stop everybody from scoring 30. But that 30? They're going to work for every point they get. And that's my mindset.

I've worked in a lot of elections and it can feel like you're fighting a battle. You get into a mindset of 'we've got to win. If they're doing it, we're going to do it too.'

100 percent, I'm a natural athlete. From when I was younger, I played so many different sports and I've got a competitive mindset.

When I see somebody, I try to beat him on both ends of the floor. It's the game within the game that you've always got to win. That's always been my mindset. That's how I was taught how to play the game. That's how I learned. And that's what I enjoy.

Back in the '60s, '70s, my mindset and the way I play would be perfect.

One needs to be of a mindset that to be champions of the world anyone can be beaten, and that's what we want, what we dream about.

My whole thing when I got in the NBA was I want to win a championship. The mindset hasn't changed.

To me it seemed in college ball, guys are more hungry. It's for a different circumstance when you're talking about playing for money and playing for heart. Not saying that guys in the NBA don't play for heart, but once you get that money, you're under a different mindset.