Quotes About Competition

It's not easy to win a Cup. Brazil spent a long time, over 20 years, before winning it, so it's not easy. The Cup is hard: it's each 4 years.

I can't sleep at night when I think about the FA Cup!

I'd like my first Ryder Cup appearance to be in the United States.

It's something that I dreamed of since I was a kid - to be able to represent my country and play in the Ryder Cup is what dreams are made of.

The AFC Asian Cup is the most important and biggest competition in Asia, and we should do our best to win it.

When the board games came out of the cupboard when I was a kid, I had to beat my two brothers every time.

I played in three World Cups, and I would say that it was the last one that I enjoyed the most.

World Cups can be career-defining.

You can get lucky in the cups, but you don't get lucky over a 38-game season.

I've played two World Cups. I've won the Champions League.

I always give a lot of importance to the cups.

World Cups are about winning.

In England you probably have too many cups with the Champions League as it is now. You have the FA Cup and another cup; what's the point in that? Probably one cup should be more than enough.

I wanted to play in Ryder Cups and I've done that.

Obviously, Ronda Rousey and Alexa Bliss, I want to see how that one goes. I'm curious to see how Alexa is going to get out of that one.

I try to live my life that way - there's not a whole lot of point getting worked up about things you can't control, and especially a week like this. You play 150 ends of curling, there's going to be a lot of bad that happens in there.

It's really nice to look around the other top skips in curling and know that I'm six, eight, 10 years younger than some of them. That is good on the ego.

It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

I enjoyed my 15 years at the top, and now I enjoy watching the current crop. What I did, maybe they can't do, and what they do, perhaps I couldn't do. It's like that. I wanted to simply be the best. On a professional level, I wanted to be No. 1, and I worked hard to be that.

Anytime you hit a curve, or you hit on the side of the wall, you hit against the side of the sled. We're taking four to five, sometimes six or seven Gs on our body every time we go down the track. And then the crashing.

It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does.

Once you create a loyal customer base, it's tough for a competitor to take that away.

When you know who your customers are, that can give you an edge on the competition.

There were business challenges, a lot of imitators sprung up, but we built a product that customers love.