Quotes About Competition

I found boxing so, so easy with incredible power, speed, and accuracy.

Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.

Realistically you can't win no championship with three white guys because the foot speed is too slow.

When you're in a sport like speed skating where the clock gives you the results, there is always a faster goal or a personal best to beat.

The Sochi circuit can be challenging, featuring a combination of high speed straights and lots of corners, especially in the last sector.

Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.

I believe my speed is my greatest advantage. My skill, my ring generalship... I could go on and on.

I always loved cars. I used to play 'Need for Speed' all the time... any racing game.

Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating.

It's a whole different world once you get into games. You have people actually trying to hit you, the speed of the game's a lot faster, you have a lot of different things you need to check and see. It's a whole different world up there once game time comes.

You never know if there is anyone faster than me, but I know my speed and most of the time I use it for good, but I don't know if there is anyone faster.

When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.

For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.

Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

This is really a new NHL and it's built on speed and young guys.

As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.

When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winning and losing, then I really hang it out there and take big risks to make the speed up, and then I'm pretty good at passing.

English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.

My speed is something that has made a difference to my whole career. When I've felt quick and I'm moving well, it makes a huge difference to my entire game. When I feel a bit slower, I end up doing a lot more defending. When I'm a bit quicker to the ball, I feel I can attack a lot more.

High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments. And there is an incredible race for speed now. People are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to shave milliseconds off.