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Quotes About Competition

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
You should want to fight the biggest fights you can and so you could maximize your stature in the sport, on the front pages of the newspapers, and your pocket book.
~ Dan Goossen
Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.
~ David Foster Wallace
I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.
~ Gregg Sulkin
There are two basic situations in volleyball - either you got the ball or you don't.
~ John Kessel
Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point, I may feel the need to run for office again.
~ Joe Scarborough
As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.
~ John Hodgman
Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.
~ John Kessel
There is nothing less important in life than the score after one game of a two out of three game match.
~ John Kessel
In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch.
~ Louis Susman
I played sports in high school and in college.
~ Jon Bernthal
The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.
~ Mark Cuban
I love the history of the sport, I love the culture that surrounds it, and I never dreamed I'd become a fanatic. I'm such a fanatic now that I'm committed to competing.
~ Tim Gunn
It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
~ Nancy Kerrigan
Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.
~ Leigh Steinberg
Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.
~ Lennox Lewis
My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.
~ Nomar Garciaparra
Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.
~ Mark Cuban
Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.
~ Troy Polamalu
Sports is, somehow, a religion.
~ Michael Novak
I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.
~ Ryan Guzman
Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.
~ Paul Ryan
If I cry, it means I'm too weak to compete in this sport. That's bull.
~ Shawna Robinson
It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.
~ Peter Forsberg