Quotes About Competition

I remember when we were making 'They Call It Pro Football,' which was our 'Citizen Kane.' The first line is 'It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.'

In England, the referee doesn't blow his whistle.

When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch.

You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.

It's always interesting to be playing against some of my best friends and some of my longtime teammates. You get to see them before the game and after the game and it's always nice to catch up but when the whistle blows it's sort of all business on the field.

Football is more disputed in England than it is in Italy. Every match is a very hard match because the referee doesn't blow his whistle as much as in Italy, and every team plays against each other like it is a final.

In Germany, you can play aggressively, but the referee will always blow his whistle, but in England, that's not the case. That's better for me.

Football is more disputed in England than it is in Italy. Every match is a very hard match because the referee doesn't blow his whistle as much as in Italy, and every team plays against each other like it is a final. I enjoy it more in England because you have to think quicker. The pace of the game is faster, so you don't have much time to think.

We need to learn that in the Champions League, the referees are vigilant and quick to whistle.

Charge-taking can be one effective way to affect the rim, but the whistle's gonna blow a lot.

I check into the game and the ref cleans the whistle off, 'OK 98s coming in.' I'm one of those players that's physical and I use my fouls.

Once I step over that white line I become The Bowler.

People say I should be running for a gold medal for the old red, white and blue and all that bull, but it's not gonna be that way.

A white male Mormon millionaire was not gonna beat Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, but someone deserved to go out there and give him a real run for his money.

Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.

Performance in any sport can never be broken down into black and white. There's a lot of grey in the nature of sport.

Growing up, I watched softball and U.S.A .softball, and that was my goal of being able to represent my country and wear the red, white, and blue out there, and I think it is one of the highest honors to be able to go out there and compete for your country, and it was something so very special, and it was everything I dreamt of and more.

Jay White has a great chance to make his name off of me. But I'm not going to make that easy.

The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good.

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

I'm not advocating not calling anything, but I think no-harm, no-foul is a pretty good rule.

Football is football, and there are some pretty good players that have come out of the FCS and did well against bigger competition.

I have some pretty good memories, but I won the Little League championship when I was a kid.