Quotes About Competition

You gain respect in your opponents' minds when you win a lot of matches.

Everybody said I was ducking opponents.

That's how tennis is sometimes: You can have good days, you can have bad days, your opponents can play really well.

Because of Valentina's career in MMA and the way she beats her opponents, beating her will be even more important than when I won the strawweight belt.

I like fighting where my opponents are better.

Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.

There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry.

You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.

As a former competitive athlete and a mother to a daughter who is a D1 collegiate athlete, I staunchly oppose biological males in girls/women's sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms.

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.

I chose 'The Voice' because I knew they had a lot more respect for each artist, as opposed to the other shows. They don't get it. I don't think those shows ever got it. I was turned off by some of the other shows and how they did things.

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

I am someone who also likes to push forward and go two on one against the opposing full-back.

The best thing is to go into an opposing arena, and 15,000 people are focusing on you. That's the best feeling.

Any opposing gym we go into, I want them to hate me. At the end of the game, I want to be beating their team so bad that they should hate me.

I find the game mentally challenging and really enjoy the chess match that occurs every week between the offense and the opposing defense.

At the highest level, you are playing the best from an opposing country, so the margin of error is very little.

I love showing off my skills on the pitch. You can make opposing players look stupid.

We center backs had to cover a lot of ground, and we had to be very physical with the opposing strikers.

I don't know why my success has been greater in XFINITY cars than it has been in Cup cars. It's the exact opposite for Jimmie Johnson.

Growing up in Buffalo, you always hated the Dolphins, but I just remember my one friend always liked the opposite team, and he liked the Dolphins, so I remember always going at it with him.

I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.