Quotes About Competition

You never know what's going to happen the rest of the way. You can't predict. You don't know what Montreal is going to do to us this weekend, and you don't know what the Cubs are going to do to the Cardinals.

Up until the age of 12, I went to dog shows every weekend. Mum showed beagles. It's a really competitive and eclectic world filled with characters who wear interesting outfits - similar to 'Toddlers & Tiaras,' but with dogs.

The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.

I am part of a circuit called 24 Hours of LeMons, where it's a sort of riff on 24 Hours of Le Mans. It's a poor man's weekend warrior racer event.

Oddly enough you'd think, now that I wasn't training professionally, I'd be able to enjoy a lie-in at the weekend, but I actually slept more when I was competing because I was so tired.

Watching all the football over the weekend - and having to wait until Monday night to play - gets you ready, gets you firing.

I'd be in elementary school all week, and then on the weekend, my mom would take us to Kauai or to the Big Island or to California for a contest. That was really fun.

The Midland community is huge into softball. They have a lot of competitive men's teams. We played at a beautiful stadium, and our games would be packed every weekend. I'm pretty sure people have my signature on softballs and they don't even know. Because we would just sign so many autographs all of the time.

My senior year was crazy. We were defending champions, we were on national TV just about every weekend, and we were winning. Teams always brought their best when they went up against us, and we always matched it.

We are all football players and we are here to do our best. You want to work hard in training and we will see what happens at a weekend.

Yes, it is always good to contribute, but the most important thing is where we finish on the points table. That is more important to me than how many runs I score.

I think, as competitors, you always wanted to try and gain an advantage, and you have that opportunity to go out and grab those bonus points and gain as many as you can throughout the year.

As players at Bayern, we're not interested in any boredom - we're interested in picking up three points each game.

India is a large market where our focus will be to grow faster than the market and add few percentage points to our market share every year.

I just try and make the right play. It led to me leading the country in points and assists.

I only care about winning and putting points on the board.

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

It's always good to score a goal, but for me, the most important thing is the three points.

For us, it's about winning. How do you do that? You score more points than the other team.

In our league, 20 points in the first half isn't anything.

I want to get to the 'pick your poison' type of situations like James Harden.

Whenever I guard a guard, I don't want to reach too much, but I will poke at the ball once to get him thinking.

Life is a poker game, and everybody has to show their cards.

I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.