Quotes About Competition

The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

All is fair in love and war.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

It is not enough to succeed, a friend must fail.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning ftiends has meant the most.

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

Man is a gaming animal.

Business is more exciting than any game.

This one makes a net, this one stands and wishes. Would you like to make a bet which one gets the fishes?

Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.

Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.

When you're faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don't hold back.

Truthfully, what we do in training is 10 times harder than what we ever have to do in a competition.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.

I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.

You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

I try to keep things as simple as possible: my job as a javelin thrower is to stay in good shape and do my best at each competition.