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Quotes About Competition

I want to have a chance to contend.
~ DeAndre Jordan
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
~ Budd Schulberg
As far as Nurmagomedov, I just don't get how you become the No. 1 contender without actually fighting guys who are ranked in the top 10. It kind of baffles me.
~ Eddie Alvarez
I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.
~ Don Shula
You don't want to end up with a huge tally of runs after eight games but with your team out of contention.
~ Gautam Gambhir
That's your goal every week: to put yourself in contention. There's a lot of circumstances and a lot of things that have to play out for that to happen.
~ Kevin Harvick
Obviously, I have to do what's best for me and my family; I've got to put that first. But I definitely want to be on a team that's in contention.
~ J. D. Martinez
I'm probably one of the best players in the world and there should be expectation when you're in contention to be able to continue to play well in that situation.
~ Justin Rose
In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.
~ Sylvester Stallone
I participated in Grasim's Mr. India contest in 2006. That's how it all started for me.
~ Mohit Raina
I just go into a contest looking to put down a good run. As long as I feel like I've done what I came to do, and I'm happy with my riding, where I end up doesn't matter that much to me.
~ Chloe Kim
Throughout my life, I've been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.
~ Florence Pugh
That contest between bat and ball, we don't want to lose that or get further away from that even contest.
~ Mitchell Starc
Marketing is a contest for people's attention.
~ Seth Godin
I want to be part of the three-point contest.
~ Danilo Gallinari
I have the same attitude going into every contest. It's all the same.
~ Red Gerard
You bring a car out, you're going to win any dunk contest.
~ JaVale McGee
Literature, of course, is not a contest.
~ Lorrie Moore
I'm very competitive. I remember being 4 years old trying to out-chug my dad in a milk-chugging contest. It's been in my blood.
~ Ryan Lochte
People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.
~ Dominique Wilkins
All my life, everything has been a contest.
~ Bobby Riggs
When I was in the dunk contest, DeMar DeRozan actually did the dunk I was about to do before me. That was going to be my next dunk, so I was panicking when I went up for my turn.
~ Blake Griffin
To me a fight is a fight, it's not a contest or a martial arts competition, it's a fight.
~ Jimi Manuwa
I kind of just treat every contest like a normal day.
~ Red Gerard