Quotes About Competition

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

You play to win the game...Hello. You play to win the game.

When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.