Quotes About Competition

I am a sportsman, and I hate politics.

That's what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.

I would love to have been a golfer or any individual sportsman.

Every sportsman wants success. It is very important.

There are always distractions in international cricket because that's part of being an international sportsman.

Growing up, I played soccer and wanted to be a sportsman.

I'm a sportsman who has competition in my blood, and I am not interested in money.

Maybe it's the sportsman in me, but if it is going to be television, I want to be the best I can be.

I was a sportsman and played cricket all my life.

That's one of the nice things about being a sportsman is that once you cross that white line, it is a freedom, you are away from everything in life really. You are playing cricket and that's an escape from everything. That's as clear as you get really.

Part of a sportsman's job is taking banter from the crowd.

I'm a sportsman, not a political man.

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

I'll fight you, and I'll have respect at the end. If you win, I have respect; if I win, I expect respect, Ray Mercer, man, I don't want to mention this guy's name anymore. He gets no respect from me. He was not professional, and he showed poor sportsmanship.

There is no such thing as sportsmanship.

NBA players are intense competitors, and it is truly humbling to know that my peers see me as someone who exhibits sportsmanship and respect on the court.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.

Obviously, every player wants to keep their spot in the starting line-up, and I'm the same.

It's what makes everybody better, that pressure for a spot and competing.