Quotes About Competition

My first dance ever on 'Dancing With the Stars' was to 'Let's Hear it for the Boy.'

I've just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don't think I'm ahead of anybody.

Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.

I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.

If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.

(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out.

Dance is such a stressful environment.

But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'

I Own the guy guarding me

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn't be surprised to see her at the front

Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream

The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals

Coe has smashed the world record, 1:44.92 seconds has never been run easier

Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.

I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.

Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'.

I feel this pang of regret whenever I watch sport; this sense that I will never play a big match again.

The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time