Quotes About Competition

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner.

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.

I'm a big believer in the whole world of sports.

The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who you are playing.

What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

Boxing is your father's sport.

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I've fallen in love with baseball.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.