Quotes About Competition

It's all very well to talk about how it would be great to have a woman driver, a woman with sponsors and marketing, that's all great but to get into that drive you have to perform. That's what I realized early on when I got into Formula One.

I want to do well for myself and my sponsors... but I feel no pressure, because I don't play for the money.

Every company that wants to sponsor a fighter in the UFC has to pay a sponsor tax to get inside the Octagon, and that's why many fighters in the UFC struggle to get sponsors. In Bellator, we don't have that.

It's difficult because the men's game is so big and attracts so much money and sponsorship, and so it's always going to take priority.

I think we all, as drivers, come to the table with a package. It's either your speed and raw talent, your sponsorship money, your nationality. For me, one of my unique selling points is my gender, without a doubt.

It is weird because a lot of people don't realise, I would struggle for budget. There are moments with the people I work with sit there and think what have we got to do to make people realise that if Billy doesn't get sponsorship he won't be racing.

We know somebody's got to win, somebody's got to lose, but aside from that, there's a lot of latitude and spontaneity and free-wheeling that I think would make it a much better product. I'm not knocking the product on RAW or Smackdown or NXT; these guys are good, but they're following a television format.

I love badminton. That's my sport!

Everyone loves sport. And everyone loves a quiz.

Shooting is an amateur sport, but everybody does it professionally.

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

Badminton is a cruel sport.

I am actively campaigning for 'chest hair' to become an Olympic sport.

The interesting thing about football is that football is the only sport where you quit playing when you get a lead.

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

Politics is a contact sport.

If the champion can't fight because of an injury, it's not my fault. It happens in this sport. It's normal.

I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Since I was kid, what's drawn me to racing is the feeling inside of me, the passion I have for the sport, the feeling I have while competing and doing what I do in a car, on a bike, whatever it's been.

I love hockey. Hockey is my go-to sport. It's my jam.

I've been an athlete my whole life. I've played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.