Quotes About Competition

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes

When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire.

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.

What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.

Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.

As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime.

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin

I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.