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Quotes About Competition

Opponents know how to get the fouls and it's gone against me a couple of times.
~ John McGinn
We've got to make our opponents earn everything they get.
~ Bret Bielema
My opponents are irrelevant. It's all about which Rob turns up. If I get it right, I can win anything.
~ Rob Cross
I don't feel the need to do anything other than what I've been doing, beating my opponents, getting some knockouts, keeping the fans coming. I don't need to do anything other than that.
~ Mikey Garcia
I saw Bob Arum out in America, I saw him walking through the lobby in the MGM Grand. I basically went over and said: 'You're running out of opponents for Crawford and I'm the guy to beat him. I'm here.' I saw Terence Crawford, he said he was ready for it, so everybody is on the same page. Everyone wants to make the fight.
~ Kell Brook
We always have respect for our opponents, but we will try to enforce our own game.
~ Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
Every Bundesliga match is a new challenge, our opponents don't make it easy for us.
~ Philipp Lahm
Going up against a great champion like Cavani, giving each other hell for 90 minutes, then being able to walk off as opponents who respect one another is the beauty of sport.
~ Giorgio Chiellini
I've knocked out a lot of my opponents.
~ Anthony Yarde
There's no specific reason for it, sometimes results just go against you and your opponents play too well.
~ Neil Robertson
The big games against big opponents, those are the best games to play in.
~ Oscar
I respect all my opponents, but I fear no one.
~ Matt Barnes
I find it quite amusing that it's feasible that your opponents can have somebody watching you.
~ Nigel Pearson
The Juventus that I know has always shown more hunger than their opponents.
~ Leonardo Bonucci
At the end of the day, I feel like I've never had an easy break in terms of opponents.
~ Aljamain Sterling
I respect all my opponents and they do the same thing that I do to get ready for fights.
~ Gegard Mousasi
I haven't fought the easiest opponents. You can show up at your best and still not come out on top.
~ Frank Mir
When you're a scholar at the academy of a professional club everything is quite nice and easy. Then suddenly you're up against opponents who are playing to put food on the table and you realise it means that much more.
~ Dominic Calvert-Lewin
You have got to go through all of the opponents to get to the gold medal.
~ Justin Gatlin
I have never had more money than my opponents.
~ Michael Capuano
If I always fought dominating my opponents without being hit back some times there would be no fun in it. That's the fun part, to have a war, there has to be a war.
~ Patricio Freire
I won't choose opponents.
~ Jessica Andrade
I wasn't the type of person to gain much weight after a fight, but at 115 I can be bigger and more powerful than my opponents.
~ Jessica Andrade
For us it's better to think of our opponents as idiots. It's easier to play hard against someone you don't like than it is to play against a friend.
~ Karch Kiraly