Quotes About Competition

If there was no Bill Bowerman, there would have been no me. He had about as much of an impact on my life as any one person could have. He taught me about competition and ingrained it in me. He taught me not to praise ordinary performances.

I want the best money, and obviously the highest ceiling that you can be the best is in the UFC. But yeah, I praise Bellator. They gave me a great offer.

I play to win, because I think that's when you get the most praise is when you win.

Eventually, the truth comes out in sport and in life. When you win, you're praised, and when you lose, you're criticized. That's normal.

Usually, before I salute the judge, I'm able to just grab the event, and I pray on it, and that really grounds me. For some reason, once I do that, I am able to think clearly, and I'm able to calm down right before I compete.

My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. I don't use it to pray before a competition. I'll just pray normally to myself, but I have it there in case.

I pray for everybody throughout the game, even my opponents. Outside of the game, we still have to live life, still have to lead normal lives, and we still need our bodies.

I don't think I've ever actually prayed to win an event.

In the Republican Party, we talk all the time about the importance of free markets and open competition. It seems to me that if we don't practice what we preach, we won't have much credibility with others.

I think what we've tried to preach to our players is we're going to let the best players play.

I was well aware of my limitations as a football player and knew that I needed every edge I could possibly get in order to compete. A big part of that was to be as precise as I could and make as few mistakes as possible because I figured that was the only way I could survive.

With Mtn Dew Game Fuel, I'm flying off buildings and hitting 360 snipes with more precision than ever.

Even if we don't play fantastically, with good passing and precision and finesse, the most important thing is to win.

Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive challenges.

You can't predict things in football because anything can happen.

That always seemed the coolest thing to me. How do you use num'bers to predict things? It was like a cool way to use numbers to be better than other people. And I really liked being better than other people.

The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.

At every Olympic Games, anything can happen that nobody can predict, so I did my best to win.

With football, you can never predict what's going to happen.

Football is so difficult to predict.

It's Twenty20, anything can happen in the format. It's very difficult to predict and pick a favourite team in this format.

It's very difficult to predict a team's competitiveness.

I don't like to predict the fights. People can do that. They can predict my fights, but I never do that.

But that's the great thing about MMA, you know, you can never predict what's going to happen.