Quotes About Competition

We have little bags we pack specifically for touch-up makeup if you're chosen for the top 16. I knew I had to sneak in my banana because nothing calms my nerves like it! I don't know if it's the potassium, but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down.

I think that in all aspects of the game, especially in professional sports but specifically in hockey, we want to grow the game.

One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

There's not a better sporting spectacle than an evenly-matched fight.

I think it will be quite the spectacle to have Awesome Kong and Beth Phoenix in the same ring at the same time.

Everybody likes the Premier League. It has a lot of spectacle, a lot of goals, and many good players. It is natural that every good player is attracted by that league.

I think T20 cricket has become the flagship spectacle for women's cricket.

We're in the world of football, it's a spectacle and the coaches form part of that.

If you're a filmmaker who grew up wanting to make a movie for people to have that female experience of sitting in the theater together, it's hard to do unless you can compete with the bigger spectacles that are being offered to them.

We used to see spectacular things with Jon Jones when he fights.

The Cardiff Half Marathon has already proved itself to be one of the biggest and best road races in the U.K., and when the best athletes in the world run on the same course, the times should be spectacular. But the real beauty of this event is that ordinary runners get the chance to line up on the same start line as the best athletes in the world.

I just look for another spectacular fight, another spectacular one-sided performance.

There's no point looking good and losing. Winning is what it's all about, and you can't always look spectacular while doing it.

What's mostly left after a match? The scenes in front of the goal where the attackers are the highlights of the play. But doing the spectacular is not particularly important to me. I just want to play for my team.

Of course I would want the knockout, but with me, I just look for, you know, a spectacular performance. It's like, walk them down, or go for the knockout. You know, hopefully I get the knockout.

Spectacular plays just happen. That's just part of the game.

When I dive for a ball I'm not diving because it looks spectacular - I'm trying win the point. When I jump it's because it's easy for me to jump. I'm not being cocky but because I can jump higher than other people it looks more spectacular. Other players smash but I go higher so it looks different.

Football is spectacular and it has to stay spectacular in every sense.

I'd like to help the professional game to get it more exciting, more spectacular, more honest also.

I'm not a good spectator; I'm a nightmare when I'm injured and I'm not playing.

Politics has become the great spectator sport of the United States.

Professional gaming competitions are creating celebrities who are recognized and revered as athletes were in prior generations. Spectator gaming is becoming as popular as mainstream sports.

As a spectator eSport, I think 'StarCraft' is really exciting, engaging, and interesting to watch. As a player, it just really has something for everybody.

I like the NBA game as a spectator.