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Quotes About Competition

I'm always looking over my shoulder, needing to stay ahead of the game.
~ Mickey Drexler
It's never nice looking over your shoulder and needing other results but sometimes that happens in football. It's a lot better to know your future is in your own hands.
~ John McGinn
Boxers Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank would not have missed their rivalry for all the world, and I don't mind a bit of needle in darts if it helps to pay the bills.
~ Phil Taylor
Being an app developer isn't at all like working at Apple. There is this huge haystack of apps, and even a very shiny needle can get lost in that haystack.
~ Bill Atkinson
F1 needs Ferrari much more than Ferrari needs F1.
~ Toto Wolff
Happiness needs one-upmanship.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Negative energy? Sure, there are awkward moments, but you're in 'Big Brother.' Everybody is trying to win, everybody is trying to form alliances, everybody is trying to kick everybody out of the house. If there wasn't negative energy, then we weren't playing the game.
~ Eva Marie
What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
~ Felix Dennis
My five-year-old, before the quarantine, joined a chess class in our neighborhood in Brooklyn, and my husband was learning to play so that they could play against each other.
~ Marielle Heller
In our neighborhood we used to hold major football sessions that went on until it got dark, with everyone playing against each other.
~ Alfredo Di Stefano
I was going to different neighborhoods around Brooklyn battling cats back in - this started in '82, so that's like eighth grade. Maybe 13, 14.
~ Big Daddy Kane
As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!
~ Jurgen Klopp
Whatever it is, when I was playing with my friends, my brother, with my neighbours, I never wanted to lose.
~ Bruno Fernandes
On July 20th, 1969, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took the most expensive selfie in history. As the apex of an 8-year, $130 billion effort, they posed in front of a camera and took a shot designed to do one thing - to show our free enterprise democratic system was better than the rigid, authoritarian system that wanted to destroy us.
~ Rick Tumlinson
When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.
~ Howard Staunton
The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.
~ Mark Lawrenson
Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country.
~ Eric Schneiderman
Nepotism is a natural thing that happens in every field.
~ Soni Razdan
Of course nepotism exists, but if star kids are not good at what they do, they won't last.
~ Rhea Chakraborty
I'm an athlete. I'm not a big golf nerd in that aspect. I'm not big on the history.
~ Brooks Koepka
At the Miss India competition, I didn't think I was going to win, I didn't know how to wear makeup, I did not have the most glamorous clothes. I was like a nerd who was put among glamorous, beautiful and talented girls, and I didn't know what I was doing.
~ Manushi Chhillar
We know what it's like to audition as kids and how nerve-racking it is.
~ Declan Donnelly
Obviously Messi is one of the best players in the world, if not the best player in the world. Looking up to him when you're young and now playing against him, it was very nerve-racking for me - especially when he would come up on my side, my heart would be beating faster and faster.
~ Alphonso Davies
I always played on my nerves - on the edge.
~ Alex Higgins