Quotes About Competition

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

Cocaine is totally different than steroids.

A sports bar is a way to take a bar and fill it with even more annoying people than usual.

The score never interested me, only the game.

Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

Winning the world championship in '66 was really the pinnacle of the whole thing, because to win a championship with an Australian made engine was a fantastic feather in our cap.

I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.

It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.

A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car, all I listen to is sports talk.