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Quotes About Competition

You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.
~ Hank Ketcham
Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.
~ Warren Spahn
Id have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home?
~ Bojana Novakovic
That home run ties it up, 1-0.
~ Jerry Coleman
Wipeout is a giant obstacle course for adults of all shapes, sizes, and ages. Whoever wins takes home $50,000 and gets to brag to all of their coworkers that they made it out alive!
~ Jill Wagner
I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
~ Michael Caine
It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.
~ Jonathan Franzen
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
~ Sammy Sosa
It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.
~ Michaela Dorfmeister
This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
~ Mickey Mantle
I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go home. No rackets. I really don't like these rackets.
~ Nikolay Davydenko
In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us outsiders. We have to fight home competition.
~ Robert Benchley
I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
~ Max Baer
About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.
~ Arthur Baer
I remember watching Ring of Honor as a fan, going to shows in Philadelphia and New York, and I loved the guys. I thought these are some of the best wrestlers in the world, if not THE best.
~ Adam Cole
I think every bowl game is exciting, but when you get to play in a bowl game that represents a cause that the Cure Bowl represents, I think that's an honor.
~ Scott Frost
Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.
~ Voltaire
Washington honors the Platinum Rule above all: 'Do it unto others before they do it unto you'.
~ Wesley Pruden
He said it's an honor to fight me, well I say that it's an honor to fight him as well.
~ Nonito Donaire
I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.
~ Rick Perry
I still hope to kill Fischer
~ Boris Spassky
A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!
~ Savielly Tartakower
It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.
~ Marat Safin
Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.
~ Leonora Carrington