Quotes About Competition

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

Life is a game, kid! It all depends on how you play!

Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.

The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

Mixed Martial Arts is a dangerous practice that could result in injuries and loss of life.

I don't feel I need to come and drive the race of Lewis Hamilton's life. I think I've driven pretty well this year and I plan to drive Lewis Hamilton's best this weekend.

Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.

The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can't describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.

Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.

Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience.

When you give a team life, give a team confidence, anything can happen in a Game 7.

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

Green Eggs and Ham. The book was not actually written to encourage fussy eaters to eat, but to make Seuss's editor Bennett Cerf eat his words. (Cerf had bet Seuss he couldn't write a book using fifty words or less.) Green Eggs and Ham hit it on the nail, and Geisel won fifty dollars, or would have, but Cerf never paid.

Well?" "He's a very handsome man," said Lorna. "You'll have to keep him out of Inge-Britt's clutches." "She smells of bacon," said Flora petulantly. "Oh yeah, men hate that," said Lorna.

Growing up with Steven and spending my summers with Jeremiah and Conrad, winning was always important, and doubly so because I was a girl and was never expected to win anything. Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.