Quotes About Competition

You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

I played semi-pro at Chalfont St. Peter but it's so hard to become a pro footballer - I think there's even more competition than acting.

NXT is the part of the WWE that is about competition. It's not sports entertainment, it's the pro wrestling side and that's what we do.

In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

The generally big places in the world, the big countries for pro wrestling or lucha libre are Mexico, U.S.A., Japan, and U.K. And now WWE is in all countries and it's different.

The Olympics are the biggest thing in boxing and the more you do as an amateur, the better deal you get as a pro.

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

Anything can happen in pro wrestling.

I'll be honest, when I first started pro wrestling, everybody else did clotheslines better than me. They did everything about pro wrestling better than me. But when it comes to fighting, getting nitty and gritty, I'm the man.

That's why I enjoy Davis Cup, and I really enjoyed college tennis. It's very special. You want to go out there and compete your hardest, because you don't want to let anyone down. You want to absolutely give it your all for your team. And that's sort of the mentality I've taken to pro tennis.

I like to hit hard, I like to be hit hard, and I like really competitive matches. That's my take on pro wrestling.

I just like people that bring in a very competitive mentality to pro wrestling.

All Elite Wrestling completely changes the entire landscape of pro wrestling.

When we play in the Pro Tour there's no crowds in, so you can concentrate better. The others play better as well, there's players who can't play too good on TV but on the floor when it's nice and quiet they can bang them in, let me tell you.

There's not a bunch of pressure at the Pro Bowl.

There are many ways to do something right within the world of pro wrestling.

Most pro athletes are super competitive, super clutch, and they don't want to lose at anything.

Every time I tour, I find a pro - I go to the local tennis center in that country, wherever it is and I play.

When you're a young pro from an undeveloped country in road cycling then you're on the back foot.

Why should the televised stuff be only about pro gamers? For me it's more fascinating to see who's going to be the next god of gods than watching some pro gamer.

At Rizin, you can actually be a pro fighter. You can step it up. You can blast, you know. You'll be alright.

I think many fighters could go pro in another sport. When it really boils down to it, it's because we are the best athletes in the world.