Quotes About Competition

It's a dog eat dog world and I'm wearing milk bone underwear.

Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench.

We're professional footballers, so we have to go out there and perform as best we can and try and get the results that we want.

I've been in martial arts more than 20 years; I've seen fighters who barely have a professional fight say they're the best in the world. I've seen many people use these words. At the end of the day, that doesn't matter. What matters is when the door closes and everyone clearly sees who deserves or does not deserve something.

We are professional footballers. How to cope with the pressure is one of the things we have to learn.

Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

I would encourage people to participate in sports. You don't have to dream of being an Olympic or a professional athlete.

You get older, and you want to be a professional athlete; you want to win on the biggest stage.

This is a business. I'm a professional athlete. This isn't, 'poke somebody and start a street fight.'

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.

I competed every day as a professional football player... You've got to like competing. That's how your team gets better, when you have competition every day.

I've played with, and against, some of the best players in the world and have experienced so much that professional football has to offer.

I was fighting a war on two fronts. I was fighting the best defenses in professional football and I was fighting the media. At that level you just cannot do that. You just cannot do it. I couldn't stop it, and I didn't try to stop it.

No woman has ever professionally, to my knowledge, fought a man in a professionally commissioned, sanctioned fight. And it's not going to happen. I mean, I'd be amazed if that ever happened. It's not gonna happen.

As modern-day professionals it all comes down to how you perform on the pitch.

The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.

I use this app that keeps my handicap. As professionals, we don't keep handicaps. But as a kid, I was so excited about seeing how low I could get my handicap. So that's one app I really do use a lot.

All of us are professionals and no player wants not to play.

You see guys in amateur contest who are much better conditioned than the professionals. To me the professionals should be better. Just because they are bigger, it doesn't mean they are better.

At any given time somebody has to make a play, and if it's not myself, you have other players that are paid and professionals like myself.

It's a competitive sport, a competitive nature, we're all professionals.

We're professionals, everybody scores. It's just a matter of limiting them as much as you can and trying to contain them.

When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't have human intelligence, you're not even in the game.