Quotes About Competition

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the moves and apply them when necessary is a critical aspect.

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

Ever since I was young, I played sports.

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.

Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts.

Baseball, however, is the most individual of team sports: In perfectly discernible packets the game reduces to one batter versus one pitcher, with each assuming responsibility for the other, every matchup a still photograph that flipped together form the moving picture we call nine innings.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.