Quotes About Competition

I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

I enjoy sports in person.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.

We play sports to win.

I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

You can easily get depressed. Usually, if you play sports, you think that one match or one game is very important, and when you lose it, you think your whole world is over.

I'm not much involved in sports, and I don't play, either.

I just love sports.

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

In Tulsa, it was sports or nothing.

I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

In sports, you play until you can't win anymore.

I think every school in the world should have a sports program.

All combat sports are connected.

Sports is a huge entertainment now, and we need to provide that entertainment for the fans because that's what they're looking for.

I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.

In high school I just loved to compete and play sports. I didn't have a sport that I was going to say, 'Hey, I'm going to play this at the next level.' Whatever my best opportunity was was what I was going to do.

I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.