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Quotes About Competition

The last thing you want to do is go down in the history of All-Star game competition as the only injury (his nose was broken by Roberto Hernandez) sustained during the team picture.
~ Cal Ripken, Jr.
My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.
~ Jose Mourinho
The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.
~ Lamar Hunt
Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.
~ David Shenk
If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.
~ Dmitry Peskov
What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
~ Nancy Sinatra
Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.
~ Charles Krauthammer
If you ever feel sorry for somebody on a golf course, you better go home. If you don't kill them, they'll kill you.
~ Seve Ballesteros
I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.
~ Stephen Curry
I'm pleased that they performed as well as they did while we've been in Miami and that's about as far as it goes. Now, we've got to go home and play as well or better.
~ Gregg Popovich
Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
~ Esther Williams
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
~ Hank Aaron
I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.
~ Bill Lee
We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.
~ Prince Andrew
Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.
~ Stan Musial
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
~ Phil McGraw
Was it a game of #UCL or was Messi in a Play Station game? Impossible! If he scores 6 goals, can he take home 2 balls?
~ Radamel Falcao
Leave your 9's at home and bring ya skillz to the battle.
~ Jeru the Damaja
My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.
~ Bob Lemon
You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.
~ Rio Ferdinand
If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.
~ Carl Yastrzemski
It was reported that the New York Knicks have won all 12 of the home games attended by magician David Blaine. A spokesman for the Knicks said, 'if this is what it takes to win, it's not worth it.'
~ Tina Fey
The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.
~ Darrell Royal