Quotes About Competition

There's no game like golf: you go out with three friends, play eighteen holes, and return with three enemies

Golf, more than most games, has a number of cliches, often successfully disguised as "tips"

Golf is a game in which the slowest people in the world are those in front of you, and the fastest are those behind

One advantage of golf over bowling is that you never lose a bowling ball.

A gimme can best be defined as an agreement between two golfers neither of whom can putt very well

Second place is the first loser.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

I am Valentino Rossi. If I stay in MotoGP it is to try to win. When that is not possible it is time to stay at home and work in the garden!

You can tell people you fell because the bike didn't follow the trajectory it was supposed to follow, or tell them that you are actually really fast, but the bike simply isn't. inside you, however, you know the truth. You know you fell off because you made a mistake, or because your opponent is simply faster than you.

She also managed to win a citywide spelling bee, beating out students at all the other Negro schools in Jacksonville. "I received an atlas of the world and a Bible as prizes," she recalled, "besides so much lemonade and cake that I told President Collier that I could feel it coming through my skin. He had such a big laugh that I made up my mind to hurry up and get grown and marry him." Decades

What was the good at having an ideal if everyone is trying to beat everyone else at admitting how impossible it is to achieve it.

As everyone knows, in my profession we go around screwing each other as much as possible, mostly to see ourselves do it. Narcissists are always making love to number one.

There's no reason why a society consisting of rational beings capable of empathizing with each other, complete and having no natural reason to compete, should have a government, laws, or leaders.

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.

Race Some bite from the others A leg an arm or whatever Take it between their teeth Run out as fast as they can Cover it up with earth The others scatter everywhere Sniff look sniff look Dig up the whole earth If they are lucky and find an arm Or leg or whatever It's their turn to bite The game continues at a lively pace As long as there are arms As long as there are legs As long as there is anything

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

When anyone is critical of what I do, I'm just motivated by it. If someone says we're not good enough, then we just do better. If another tennis player says something negative, I say, "That girl will never beat me." We feed off the criticism.

I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.