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Quotes About Competition

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
~ Duffy Daugherty
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.
~ Duke Snider
I remember one time I asked Pete Rose, I was on first base, I said, "Pete why did you..." -- he fouled off about fifteen, and I could tell that he wasn't even trying to put them in play. He said he called it "sending the fans souvenirs" because he didn't like the guy on the mound.
~ Dusty Baker
It's all good, man. It's part of the game. I like battle. That's what makes the game fun. You hope that it doesn't turn into physical battle, but at some point in time ...
~ Dusty Baker
You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.
~ Dusty Baker
It's been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it. We don't get timeouts, in the middle of a race we can't stop and catch our breath, we can't roll on our stomachs and lie there, and we can't ask for a substitution.
~ Dusty Hicks
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
~ Dwight Morrow
The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there is far less competition.
~ Dwight Morrow
I thought, I can't wait to get on the podium squad. I was in my hotel and they were in the Premier Inn living the high life!
~ Anthony Joshua
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.
~ Bill Gates
Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home
~ Mary Quant
If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.
~ Trisha Goddard
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
~ Bertrand Russell
I live for competition. It makes my life complete.
~ Hope Solo
Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.
~ Joan Crawford
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
~ Stephen King, The Running Man
There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
~ Robert Orben
If you can't get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life
~ Brett Lee
When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.
~ Steve McQueen
My favorite player is Tiger Woods. I think I can beat Tiger when I'm 20. It's a life goal.
~ Michelle Wie
Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.
~ Dennis Conner
In rowing as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The racer does not think of limits, only the race.
~ Jim Dietz
All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.
~ Jim Rohn