Quotes About Competition

I love switching onto a point guard or pushing the big up the court, but playing against Candace Parker would be awesome.

I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

Yeah, I don't know whether it would be a coach's dream to coach the world No1 or a double-edged sword.

My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

I went to five Olympic Games and my favorite is Sydney.

I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.

I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

My symbol was always a polo player because I liked sports, and polo has a stylishness to it.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

Pretty much all the drivers I get on with, at least to say 'Hi' and have a conversation. But when the helmet's on, you don't care who it is. You have no sympathy: someone blows an engine in front of you, if it means you gain a position, then you're smiling.

There's little place for sympathy in football.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

Nobody in football wants to receive sympathy.

Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most.

One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company's obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply.

I love what I'm seeing out there with Pro Wrestling Syndicate, Northeast Wrestling, Big Time Wrestling, and WildKat in New Orleans. There is a lot of good stuff out there.

Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.

Just as I have broken the monopoly of film music as being synonymous with popular music in our country, I want to prove that cricket is not the only glamorous sport.

The 1982 Asian Games champion M.D. Valsamma's coach gave a statement in the media that if Valsamma had some 15 days training on a synthetic track, she would beat me. I was very interested in the challenge. I kept that paper cutting under my bed and used to read it often.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

We'd always come into Syracuse for the Empire State Games and the stair fair.

I was No. 1 in college at Syracuse. I've been No. 1 a lot.