Quotes About Competition

There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.

Soccer is an uncomfortable sport. You're running; you're getting tackled.

You have got to try to make the batsman feel a bit uncomfortable to get him out.

Pretty much all I'm doing during an eating contest is being uncomfortable and not forgetting to breathe.

Spence hasn't been in a ring with an animal like me. I have to be a dog, touch him and make him feel me. He won't be able to catch my rhythms. I pride myself on making people uncomfortable.

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

The fans want to see more. They're there to see fights, they want to see more, they want to see people get put unconscious, whatever. But you can't get put in those spots.

As a competitor, I try to do everything in my power to control the uncontrollable.

There's nothing pretty about competitive eating. It might be uncouth, but it is fun, and it is lighthearted.

I've faced the undefeated, young up-and-comers, everybody counting me out before, on a big card, with big lights, TV.

It's very rare in British boxing that you have two fighters who are both undefeated and who are both world champions.

I'm undefeated in Scrabble. I can figure out an opponent's strategy and mold mine to offset theirs. I play a couple times a week, and I'll often play a game on my bed by myself against myself, which I realize sounds completely mad.

Being undefeated, Gelo and Melo winning 60 games in a row, my boys don't lose too much.

My biggest frustration with the Heisman is it's become the MVP of the national champion, or a team going to the National Championship game. That's what it's turned into. If you're not undefeated, you're out of the running.

Our goal isn't to go undefeated. Like, 'Hey, we're going to have an undefeated season.' Our goal is to win every game we're playing. And there's a difference.

I've fought everybody without ducking anyone. I have beaten 10 undefeated guys, and I never was comparing myself to the greatest in the sport. I was not thinking of breaking any records. I'm just enjoying my time in boxing.

The height of my athletic achievement was in 8th grade when I was the point guard for my Jewish day school basketball team. We played in a public school league and, amazingly, went undefeated. I say 'amazingly' because our power forward was 5 ft. 6 in.

In hindsight, I'd love to be undefeated still, but that's not what this sport is.

I've been on cruise control with my opponents, even though I fought some very good champions, undefeated champions.

Fighting against undefeated IBF 154-pound champion Marie-Eve Dicaire continues my quest to fight the very best in women's boxing.

It's just part of the game that we just have to get used to. Sometimes it goes our way, sometimes it don't. But it's still a sport, and you want to be undefeated.

You can't have a No. 1 fighter when you have three undefeated champions. It's just the dumbest thing in the world. Let's just be honest. You can't have three undefeated champions of the world.

Honestly, in this sport everyone is so good, everyone is so talented. You fight with four-ounce gloves on - in a perfect world, you'd be undefeated and walk away. That's a small percentage. That's Floyd Mayweather.

There's no point in playing underage football until you are 23. You've got to be able to play in games, cope in men's football and that almost certainly means that you have to go to the lower leagues.