Quotes About Competition

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.

Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish.

When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.

I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it.

I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.

We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.