Quotes About Competition

It's hard to close people out, regardless whether you're sweeping them or ending the series, period. It's hard.

Boxing is the sweet science. You hit and not get hit. There's no reward for you to hit me more than I hit you other than on the scorecards.

I've always had a passion for dancing, and I wasn't lucky enough to go to stage school, so when I got onto the show, I was like a kid in a sweet shop. I went into it just to have fun. The support was overwhelming, to say the least. It wasn't until the end of the show that I realised how much I really wanted to win it.

On 'Sweet Genius,' you have to be tough with the chefs, but my goal was to guide them and choose the genius who will win $10,000 - not a bad sum at all for one day's work.

I'm playing a powerhouse singer who is big competition, but she's also really down to earth and sweet. But the whole sweet thing goes away when she's in competition mode. I love the show, so I'm very excited to be a part of it. I'm going to kill it on 'Glee!'

The squared circle's no pretty place to be, and there's nothin' sweet about it.

In 1939, a newspaper ran a competition for the first load of boys off to war to pick their favourite singer. They chose me from my radio broadcasts. That's when I became known as the 'forces' sweetheart.'

It's never fun to get swept, but it's going to happen.

That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up.

I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

After the 2013 World Championships, I had three goals for the Olympics: to swim 3:56 or better in the 400-meter freestyle, break 8:05 in the 800, and win gold in the 200. I achieved all of those, and soon, it will be time to set some new goals.

Whatever other people expect me to do, whatever they're comparing me to, I don't care. I'm just trying to swim fast.

And I guess the thing that I really sort of rely on in me is that I love racing and I love competing and so I know that you know when the time comes and the pressure's on and I have to swim well, I'm sort of able to pull it out and sort of get the best out of myself.

My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.

Growing up, I was a water baby. We lived near a lake, had a pool in our backyard, and as soon as I was old enough, I joined a swim team. By 10, I was winning local events.

I could have never been a high diver or a gymnast because I don't like subjectivity. I love where I'm faster than you,, or I can jump higher or swim faster. I don't want you holding a card before I figure out whether I won or lost.

When you're out there together on the pitch, you're fighting for each other. It's amazing, overwhelming and you either sink or swim in that atmosphere. It's what makes professional footballers what they are. You can't replicate that in any other job.

I love seeing other people swim quickly, it gives you a bit more motivation to keep pushing and get the best out of yourself.

It drives me forward knowing people are watching me and I have to swim well.

I learnt to swim at the age of four or five. My parents took me to a club where you go from learning to swim to competing.

I'm just going into London to enjoy it as much as I can. Enjoy the experience and just swim the best that I can on the day.

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.

I think everybody pees in the pool. It's kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers.