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Quotes About Competition

Athletes are going to tease each other. Football players want to be baseball players. Baseball players want to be football players. Basketball players want to be baseball players, and vice versa.
~ Ken Griffey Jr.
All three teams will always be linked. If you think of the Dudleys, you think of Edge and Christian and The Hardy Boyz, and vice versa with all those other teams.
~ Christian Cage
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
~ Henry Kissinger
The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
~ Pancho Gonzales
Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.
~ Ron Chernow
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
~ Michael Caine
I'm vicious. I can be nice off the ice, but on the ice, that's not where it's time to make friends.
~ Ashley Wagner
Dressing rooms can be vicious places, in the best possible way, from a slagging point of view.
~ Brian O'Driscoll
Jon Jones is a great champion, but me in my prime, I was devastating. I was vicious. Nobody could stop me. Of course I could beat him in my prime.
~ Tito Ortiz
What people often forget is that for the parties involved, the media game is a vicious contest.
~ Ryan Holiday
In any sport at the top level, if you don't put in the hard work, you can be sure someone else is. It is a vicious circle.
~ Stephen Hendry
Im as masculine as the next man - get me on the mountain bike and Im vicious.
~ Grayson Perry
If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?
~ David Frum
To make it big, a fighter needs power. Otherwise, sooner or later, he'll fall victim to opponents who force the issue and take two or three punches to land one.
~ Thomas Hauser
All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
~ Pat Brown
The competitions between fiction and nonfiction, short and long, electronic and paper, are not battles in which there can be only one victor. After all, we exist in a world where more kinds of writing than ever are greeted with interest and enthusiasm.
~ Celeste Ng
At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.
~ Gloria Swanson
I say this respectfully, but there always appears to be a reason for guys like Robert Guerrero, Victor Ortiz and some others to avoid me.
~ Marcos Maidana
Victoria Woodcock ran Vote Leave - she was a truly awesome project manager and without her Cameron would certainly have won.
~ Dominic Cummings
I want Victoria to be the number one state in the best country in the world.
~ Denis Napthine
Victorian theorists competed to identify how many biologically differentiated races lived on Earth and proposed inherent characteristics for them, formulated explanations for these presumed variations in humanity.
~ Nick Harkaway
It would have been great to have had 10 victories and been in the playoffs and have gone all the way and then said, 'Goodbye,' but it didn't work out that way.
~ Chuck Noll
We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
There are no moral victories.
~ Sean McDermott