Quotes About Competition

In baseball, you respect the team you play, the guys on the other side. That's how the game works. Play to win but appreciate the opposition.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

No let another man success make you think say you know they try...

parasitic and idiotic funding systems for overseas promotion mean that overproduced wine from Australian irrigated fruit will hit rock bottom, facing competition from South Africa

Caucasian laborers could not compete with the Chinese, could not live upon a handful of rice and work for a pittance, and found themselves being steadily crowded out from occupation after occupation by the thrifty, skillful Orientals, who, with their yellow skin and strange, debasing habits of life, seemed to them hardly fellow men at all, but evil spirit, rather.

I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

Any time you see someone more successful than you are ... they are doing something you aren't.

Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.

At first, I was conscious of wanting to please the Professor, but gradually that feeling faded and I realized it had become a battle between the problem and me.

Those less affluent, less educated, and less skillful fear being thrown into the global competition as their chance of winning are minute and the price of failure unbearable. They tend to prefer "a bird in hand than two in the bush.

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.

Cuando dos intelectuales argelinos se entienden entre sí… —… siempre es en detrimento de un tercero —remata Sido cerrando la puerta al salir.

Fox: It's lonely at the top. Gould: But it ain't crowded.

Competitive sports keeps alive in all of us a spirit of vitality and enterprise. It teaches the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid. To be proud and unbending in defeat, yet humble and gentle in victory. To master ourselves before we attempt to master others. To learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep, and it gives a predominance of courage over timidity.