Quotes About Competition

And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.

One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

Your adrenaline starts to go when the market opens in the morning. It's like sports programming.

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.

Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.

I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.

Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

In high school, I didn't get the chance to wrestle varsity until my senior year because I had an older brother who was better than me.

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.