Quotes About Competition

I said as soon as I got the belt, I want number one contenders.

You have the belt, you fight who they tell you to fight.

I don't necessarily know about the rankings. I always like to look at it as, it's the person with the belt, and it's everybody else.

If you hold the belt, you have to fight anybody.

If you have the belt, you have to fight anyone.

Some people win 10, 15, and don't fight for the belt.

What I want is the belt. It doesn't matter who has it.

I always want to fight for the belt. I don't really care.

Ronda knows what's like to have this belt, she knows the power this belt has.

At some point, if the UFC allows me, I'd like to go to 125 because I know I can win that belt, man. I'm too strong, and I'm too fast.

I would love to fight anybody at the welterweight limit with a belt.

Anyone with a belt in my weight division I want to fight.

Anyone in the UFC, that should be your goal, to get the UFC belt and to fight for that title.

I'm interested in any light-middleweight. If they've got a belt, even if they think they're the hardest in the division, I can beat all of them.

From elementary school through high school, my siblings and I were hectored to excel in every class, to win medals in science fairs, to be chosen princess of the prom, to win election to student government. Thereby and only thereby, we learned, could we expect to gain admission to the right college, which in turn would get us into Harvard Medical School: life's one sure path to meaningful success and lasting happiness.

If someone like Pete Schoening was the equivalent of a major-league baseball star, my fellow clients and I were like a ragtag collection of pretty decent small-town softball players who'd bribed their way into the World Series.

Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way," Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations, "and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men.

he wanted to win. Republicans in the Texas of 1963–64 were Goldwater men, not Rockefeller men. So George Bush was a Goldwater man.

The better you did—the more contests you won—the greater the next goal, the greater the next mission.

But they always stayed in the arena, grappling with each other and with Stalin to find a way to win. Had they failed, or truly fallen out with each other, we could be living in a different world.

Too often, people view their own opportunity as dependent on domination over others, which helps explain why such people see the expansion of opportunity for all as a loss of opportunity for themselves.

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.

if you get between the lawyer and his goal, you're going to get hurt.

if you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win