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Quotes About Competition

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
~ Billie Jean King
Football is a violent sport, and if you don't kind of go to that dark place to be violent and be physical, you're not going to last very long.
~ George Kittle
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
~ Paul Fussell
It's kind of hard for boxing, which is a violent sport, to get the respect that it deserves.
~ Daniel Jacobs
We play a violent sport.
~ Shaun Alexander
Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.
~ Geoffrey Canada
Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.
~ Ndamukong Suh
Football is a violent, competitive game. That's the way it was always meant to be played. You are supposed to play with an edge. You are actually supposed to impose your will on the other person to win.
~ Baker Mayfield
Am I afraid of Madrid's violent play? No, every team plays according to their possibilities, and there's a referee who should judge.
~ Gerardo Martino
I mean, football is a violent sport.
~ Eric Reid
Football is a violent, violent sport, and you have to practice that way in order to get at elite levels on Saturday, in my opinion.
~ Tom Herman
Football has always been a contact sport, and it's always going to be a violent sport, and there are going to be repercussions from that. But every player that ever played this game and will play this game, they're signing up for it.
~ Ed Reed
It's a violent sport. It's meant to be that way.
~ Joe Flacco
I don't like winning in a violent way.
~ Demian Maia
Guys are getting so big, so fast, so explosive. The game's so violent.
~ Carson Palmer
I still and will always have a passion for martial arts and do not believe, as a Christian, that it's wrong for myself to compete in a professional sport that is violent.
~ Rory MacDonald
It's the most violent sport there is.
~ Derek Carr
That's how the NFL is. It's a dangerous, violent game, and there's only so many opportunities, and only the best of the best play it.
~ Mitchell Trubisky
It's a fast-paced somewhat violent sport, but it's very much entertaining. And the greatest thing about mixed martial arts is that it transcends a lot of demographics.
~ Michael Chandler
I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.
~ Geoff Dyer
People's mouse clicks decide what businesses, services, and content succeed. Users have equal access to tiny businesses with viral ideas and blue-chip companies, allowing these enterprises to compete on their own merits. It's how so many small start-ups have been able to become Internet success stories.
~ Chellie Pingree
This is a virile sport in which physical contact is allowed.
~ Miroslav Klose
Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
~ Larry Ellison
All signs point to there being many virtual and augmented reality competitors, and not just a single, dominant company.
~ Tim Sweeney