Quotes About Competition

It's no disgrace to play against the world's champions and lose by one service break in the last two sets.

One of the worst things in sports is when selfishness gets disguised as truth.

Us players are supposed to dish it out for 90 minutes.

I like wrestling the bigger guys, personally, because I can lay into them harder, and they can dish it back out.

Dislike is what creates rivalries.

In the Big Ten, we disliked the SEC because of the success they had.

There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

I never thought I'd be up against Salvador Dali and Roy Disney.

Does it help Dutch teams in the Champions League because they don't have to be at it in the league? I think it does. I experienced the disparity.

I give everybody respect. There's nobody in the NBA who I disrespect because on any given night, you're liable to get lit up.

No disrespect to Whittaker, I know I can beat him.

No disrespect to any other competition, but what drives me now is majors, Ryder Cups, the Olympics.

Me personally, I can take getting beat, if it's about basketball. But when it gets to the point where you're being personal, and being disrespectful as a man to another man, that's when I have a problem.

No one has to talk disrespectful to anybody. We're just here to run.

I think the term tanking, I think it's disrespectful to the game. I really do. I don't like that term. I don't like when people use it.

The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth.

That's one reason I think the 1,500 is so exciting. You have to be strong, have to be a distance runner. But in that last hundred you are going all out.

I mean, I think from the competitive side, especially as a defensive back, you don't mind that pressure, going out there on fourth-and-15 or whatever the down and distance.

If you pinpointed someone before the kick-off, probably you would become embroiled in a fight, and you would be distracted from what really matters and not play well.

Olympics is a place where you can be easily distracted to a lot of things and it will seem like a magic world.

We became quite famous in our district. People came especially to watch us. And I used to love it when we heard them saying, 'There go the girls who beat boys.'

I was a decent 800 m. runner, not 400 - and I'm actually really proud of this: I beat the girls and the boys to win my school 800, so it was a big deal at the time; I was about 11. Then I won the district and made it to state, but I just never went, because I was training, and tennis was a big part of my life at that point.

I'm going to prove to the rest of these girls walking around, strutting their stuff, that I am the top Diva and I am here to stay.

I think I just need to be myself. I think that's what this 'Diva Search' competition is all about.