Quotes About Competition

Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.

Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.

Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness.

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.

Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.

He who follows another will never overtake him

There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.

The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

Second place is just the first place loser.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.

My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f*****g perch. And you can print that.

I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.