Quotes About Competition

I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.'

For nostalgia, I like to play Merion - I was fortunate enough to win the U.S. Open there.

'Nostalgic' was just all my influences and me just being like, 'Yo, I'm going to be the hardest one out of everybody.'

I'm not sure whether it counts as a talent, but I love playing 'Magic: The Gathering.' It's mathematical and intellectually challenging, and makes me feel nostalgic for when I played as a kid.

I can deal with losing as long as one is trying to win. If you're losing, and you're not trying to win, that is not fair.

I see so many women thinking other women are their enemies - especially when they don't have a job or a guy or whatever. It's like, 'I don't have what I want, and she does, so she must be my enemy.' I find it confusing and not fair and sad.

You can't be a losing team and get a new arena. That's not fair. That's not fair! That's how I see it.

It's a lot of hard work, competing and not giving up. I think you get more appreciated the older you get.

At the end of the day, when you have more points than the other team, you win. So, defensively, it's all about not giving up touchdowns. It's about trying to keep them off the board.

Good is not good enough at United.

We accept that, in one way now, if you are 27, 28 and still playing for Ajax, you are probably not good enough for the top of Europe because players want to go to the top in Europe.

When it comes to United, if you don't win everything, it's not good enough.

Every time I looked in the mirror, it was like, 'You're not good enough.' 'There's always someone more popular.' 'There's always someone more gifted in music.'

I'm not interested in having the second- or third-largest mall in Cincinnati.

You'll never see me on anything like 'MasterChef.' I'm just not interested.

I miss the fears. I miss that. I miss going over the middle and not knowing if I'm going to make that play. I think that's the part of the game you miss the most, that excitement of it. Then you think of the physical part as a retired player and I'm like, 'hell no.'

Arsene Wenger gave me the belief to keep working and competing. He was not talking to me every day, 'I believe in you,' but it was every now and again. The right amount.

This is the fight game. I'm not worried or scared about absolutely anybody who's not talking about me.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

When the whole team is doing well and you're at the top people take note of what you are doing.

My mum sent me to an open audition for 'Notes On A Scandal' so I could see quite how many other girls wanted to do this. And I queued up, and I got the job. That was my first-ever audition, and my second was 'Atonement.'

Nothin' will ever jump over the Jumpman... Yeezys aren't even basketball shoes. You can play in 'em, but they're not basketball shoes.

Every year you have to perform and win. There is nothing new for me as far as I am concerned. But the truth of the matter is you do have to perform, you do have to produce.

My 'Movember' moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell's, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone else's. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid.