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Quotes About Competition

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
~ Yogi Berra
Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.
~ Richard Petty
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
~ Katarina Witt
Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?
~ Bill Maher
Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.
~ Mario Lemieux
I didn't like the way the game was being played.
~ Mario Lemieux
There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.
~ Don Shula
I came out to beat everybody in sight, and that's just what I'm going to do.
~ Babe Didrikson Zaharias
I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
~ Yani Tseng
The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.
~ George A. Sheehan
Sport doesn't build character, it shows it.
~ Ana Ivanovic
I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one
~ John Elway
It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get.
~ Steve Waugh
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.
~ Knute Rockne
Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.
~ Paula Radcliffe
People say it is part of the game. You win some, you lose some. But not for me.
~ Ruud van Nistelrooy
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close
~ Jesse Owens
I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
~ Bob Feller
I skated like it's a sport, went for everthing and just gave it my best shot. It turned out freat. I had nothing to lose. You might be the best in your heart, but not in other people's sight.
~ Michelle Kwan
I had to put it on the line, but it was my Tour to win and mine to lose.
~ Cadel Evans
Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.
~ William Baldwin
Without losers, where would the winners be?
~ Casey Stengel
The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.
~ Grant Hill