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Quotes About Competition

There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done.
~ Jason Kidd
Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you're capable of. It's only two teams on that Monday night.
~ Jerry Rice
I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.
~ Gordon Strachan
We've got teams and other countries have teams. Right now, we are going to their countries; we're finding the best athletes; we're bringing them to our team. We're training them, we're making them awesome, and sending them back to beat us. We've got to stop that.
~ Tim Griffin
Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing.
~ Steve Mariucci
You learn from playing against the best players and the best teams, and we're going to keep fighting and figuring out ways to beat them.
~ Scott Brooks
We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.
~ Saku Koivu
American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.
~ George Brett
I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.
~ Ben Barnes
Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.
~ Tracy McGrady
I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
~ Manu Bennett
You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.
~ Jermain Defoe
Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
~ Jonathan Haidt
A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll ever see in college basketball. But the '89 team is the best one to ever play at Michigan in my opinion because they won the national championship. Winning a championship is winning a championship.
~ Trey Burke
The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize - to be awarded for sending a robotic spacecraft to this nearby world that can roam at least 500 meters, and send back data such as a photo.
~ Seth Shostak
Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.
~ Pete Rose
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
~ Hamish Bowles
Every year you suit up, you play for a championship. Some years, some teams... it was very few times I think I played on that realistically had a chance.
~ Grant Hill
I want the Saints to be one of those teams where when other teams see us on the schedule, they know they're in for one hell of a game.
~ Reggie Bush
When I was playing, there were only eight teams in each league, and you didn't have any playoffs.
~ Red Schoendienst
When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard to come up, but it's just hard to stay in the big leagues.' That's because there's always somebody. The Cardinals had so many minor league clubs and had so many good ballplayers.
~ Red Schoendienst
Madrid excites me. They are one of the best teams in the world.
~ Isco
I'm definitely a football fan, so I try to stay up with how teams are doing, and you end up getting a lot of buddies that play on certain teams. I wouldn't say I watch too much of other quarterbacks.
~ Andrew Luck
Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.
~ Michael Ignatieff