Quotes About Competition

Tennis runs in cycles. There are victories. There are disappointments.

The strongest feelings I experienced were in Davis Cup. It was the most powerful thing: the victories and the losses. It hits you in a distinct way. It's another level of satisfaction - another level of sadness.

Moral victories are really more for coaches than players.

You need to know how to enjoy the victories. In the end, this is a great sport, and it's to be enjoyed.

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

Trying to get over guys and knock them out, that's what fires me up. Decision victories, whoop dee doo, but finishing guys fires me up.

There is a belief that getting any particular job may depend on who has just had five consecutive victories. If that's the way it is, I've got a healthy attitude.

I did not have to prove anything to people who doubted me, just to my team-mates and to Barcelona. The best thing is to do it on the field, with victories, with goals. But more than the goals is winning matches.

That desire to win is something that's drummed into you at an early age in my country. In Argentina, you grow up watching great teams and important victories.

Of course I would love to battle for victories and be up the front but it's always about where can you be, what are your alternatives.

Whenever you go into a game, you want to win, and you want to come out victorious in any way.

My mindset is always to be victorious, to win the match.

The only thing I miss is the actual fight night and the feeling of winning. I can say this with my hand on my heart, there is no greater feeling than standing victorious in the ring or in the case of my last fight, a stadium.

I'll never be able to replace the feeling of standing victorious in the ring, that's never going to happen again and I'm never going to fight again.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.

I have everything to come out victorious - the strength, the speed, the youth.

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

Real Madrid are favourites in every championship and in every game, but we will stay humble in order to earn a victory.

You just go in and play with confidence and try to come out with a victory. That's the goal.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

If we can win playing well then that's great but the most important thing is to get the victory.