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Quotes About Competition

If my parents are at the meet, I'll try to look and just kind of spot them out in the stands.
~ Caeleb Dressel
'ACE' is one of the acronyms I've used over the years. It stands for 'Acting cures everything.' You weren't promised to come to the ballpark and feel great on your start day. Basically, how can you put something on display to the opponent that gives the appearance of 'OK, this guy is locked in today,' whether you are or not?
~ Jake Arrieta
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
~ Henry A. Wallace
It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.
~ Isaiah Thomas
Only one champion stands at the end of the year, so just making the playoffs isn't enough.
~ David Fizdale
David Luiz has to work with the others if he deserves to play; otherwise, he will stay on the bench or in the stands.
~ Antonio Conte
The first run or match with The Shield always stands out to me - our matches, our wars.
~ Luke Harper
I have noticed that, for fans in England, the Premier League stands above the rest.
~ Ilkay Gundogan
Being an opponent playing in Boston over the years, you always see guys in the stands who played for the Celtics. It's a mystique. It's cool.
~ Rasheed Wallace
The top-tier teams, it's about winning. It's about filling the stands and making enough money to pay for the other sports.
~ Mack Brown
Before the Netflixs and the Amazons and the Hulus, there was nothing. TV came to a standstill. Movie actors were taking TV parts, and it was just nuts.
~ Rick Hoffman
I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.
~ Leslie Jones
It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.
~ Pete Sampras
Well, you can't compete with a six foot five man in a wig.
~ Shemar Moore
Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.
~ Walter E. Williams
This is the step up people have wanted. [Wladimir] Klitschko wants his belts back, may the best man win.
~ Anthony Joshua
What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.
~ Bias of Priene
When you've got your man down, rub him out.
~ Rod Laver
While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors.
~ Percy Cerutty
I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count…Provided I like it!
~ Puggy Pearson
Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replay in sports. They've already forgotten what's happened.
~ Rita Rudner
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
~ A. A. Milne
Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
~ O. Henry
I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.
~ Anjelica Huston