Quotes About Competition

Nobody is guaranteed to be a starter; thinking that would be a mistake.

It's completely normal that every player wants to be a starter. But ultimately the coach decides and we have to accept it.

Guys get... benched, replaced. They get injured; another guy comes in and becomes the starter. That happens all the time.

If you are going to be a starter in the NFL or a major-college program, you are going to have to beat out other great quarterbacks.

Of all the years playing football, I have never felt like an undisputed starter - that would be an error.

Everyone wants to be a starter, that is clear, but the one who makes those decisions is the coach. It is up to us to work hard and be at our best when we are needed.

It's true that at Malaga, I played every game as a starter, but here at Madrid, they give nothing away.

Guys that are playing in the preseason are one play away from being a starter.

You play the game to compete and you want to be a starter, but at the same time you don't want to rush yourself to be in any situation that could possibly lead you back to where you are today.

Obviously I want to be a starter and to win things with Real Madrid.

In the first season with Sarri I only played six games as a starter.

My personal expectations are to be a starter, and I'm going to fight to earn that position.

You play against receivers, they're in one play and then they'll put somebody else in, run you deep and get you tired. Then they'll put their starters back in.

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

When I'm in the starting gate, it's just me and the hill.

We're taking sports too far and starting kids too early.

Lacrosse has a special place in my heart after starting my career as a lacrosse player at Penn State.

My biggest benching was before the 2012 Olympics. It kind of came out of nowhere. I just kind of had one bad half, 45 minutes, and it pretty much cost me my starting spot.

Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.

Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

I'm very confident in my own ability but I'm not guaranteed to get a starting spot.

I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.

I think when you saw this year's playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they're starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop.