Quotes About Competition

Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.

For those of us who have lived abroad and seen our nation in a highly competitive 21st century, and kind of see where this world is going - unless we are able to strengthen our core, we're going to see the end of the American century. And that is totally unacceptable.

I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the real significance of being a pro unless you're playing other pros. It doesn't help you to play sporadically here or there.

I'm not really a flashy dunker or a show dunker unless somebody's in front of me. That's the only time I really get wide-eyed: when I can dunk on somebody. If it's a wide-open dunk, I've never been the type to dunk it real hard wide-open and scream.

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.

When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.

Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.

The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.