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Quotes About Competition

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.
~ Avery Brundage
Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.
~ Gerry Cooney
I think that money has changed my sport.
~ Bill Toomey
I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.
~ Jacques Villeneuve
I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.
~ Roland Emmerich
I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
~ Rafael Palmeiro
This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
~ Oliver Kahn
The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.
~ Andy Rooney
I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.
~ Angela Ruggiero
In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.
~ Matt Emmons
IndyCar is what it is and in the back of our minds we all know it is a dangerous sport.
~ Scott Dixon
For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.
~ Andy Murray
When it is on, the Ryder Cup is by a country mile the biggest sporting event in the world.
~ Tommy Fleetwood
A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event.
~ Mike Huckabee
The Olympic Games are the greatest sporting event in the world.
~ Jessica Mendoza
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
~ William Wordsworth
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
~ Bobby Knight
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
~ John Updike
Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
~ Thierry Henry
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
~ Rogers Hornsby
I've always been athletic my entire life and loved sports.
~ Sonya Deville
I come from a family of four brothers, so I like sports.
~ Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.
~ Ice Cube