Quotes About Competition

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.

His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.

In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.

It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.

It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead

The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.

Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

As someone that was a good ambassador of a growing sport, that always wanted to fight the best fighters and always gave the fans the best he could give.

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do?