Quotes About Competition

The only way I survived at school was by doing impersonations of teachers and pupils. That led to me winning a talent competition when I was 16; the prize was three or four gigs in working men's clubs. I was just showing off: at the time, I thought that's what acting was.

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

I'm getting better and better each year that I'm playing golf on the world stage, and finishing runner-up only teaches you how to continue being patient - something that is key to our game.

I think sports is good for goal setting, and I think it teaches you some important values.

If the NBA teaches us anything, you have to have talent to win.

You can score goals at youth level but men's football teaches you things. It teaches you real football and you realise that this game is sink or swim.

You spend your life having lessons, practising and competing as an amateur, and working during the day. As you get to the top end of the amateur field, you try not to work anymore; you earn your living through dancing, maybe by doing a bit of teaching. It's an ongoing life's work.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

Red Bull is an energy drinks company operating a team in F1, of course it doesn't sit particularly well when you are competing against iconic brands like Ferrari and Mercedes. We are happy to be perceived as a bit of a maverick.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.

As a goalkeeper, you always expect every team to give you nightmares.

That the Dream Team played against each other every day. The greatest games ever were the practice games they played. Everybody was talking smack. It wasn't Michael the only one talking. Magic Johnson was really good, too.

To have healthy competitions among players for places in the team is good for Indian cricket and the game in general.

For me, games against Arsenal are always beautiful because in my childhood they were my favourite team.

Coaches will say that it's not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.

Every team should have the chance to go on the podium, that would make it interesting. I believe that.

I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.

Mercedes and Ferrari are working as one team these days. Sometimes it is difficult to tell which is which.

There's always a feeling of revenge any time you lose against any team.

An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

Manchester City are a big team, and Chelsea are a big team.

When you're on the road, fans pay to cheer on their team and boo the other team; that's just part of it. That's what they're supposed to do. I expect it. I think everybody expects that.