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Quotes About Competition

We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God.
~ Bill McKibben
So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.
~ Bobby Knight
It's a god-eat-god world.
~ Terry Pratchett
You had some unexpected help. You had help from God! Essentially, it became a handicap match! Me vs you and God!
~ Vince McMahon
Oh. My. God. They were fighting. In the library. Over her.
~ Lauren Kate
I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.
~ Lennie James
Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.
~ Linda Barnes
If people are standing up there saying, my football team just won with help from God, then obviously God just pissed over the other team.
~ Neil Gaiman
Payne Stewart was a vicious competitor. He only played to win, ... Only God can change hearts.
~ Paul Azinger
As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.
~ Paul Johnson
I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race.
~ Paula Radcliffe
There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation.
~ Ray Floyd
I never was very big on praying for victory. For God to give a big win to the Denver Broncos, wouldn't He have to take it away from somebody else, say, the Green Bay Packers?
~ Deacon Jones
God has given me both the right and privilege to outrun Him if I so choose. Yet, if I do so, I will have lost the race.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.
~ Ibn Rajab
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
~ Vince Lombardi
Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.
~ Jay Mohr
Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.
~ Richard Krajicek
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
~ W. Edwards Deming
It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.
~ Michael Gartner
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
~ Ted Williams
Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.
~ Gary Gygax
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
~ Bobby Bowden
I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.
~ Demetri Martin