Quotes About Competition

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

I'm always thinking if I'm not doing something to get ahead in life, someone else is doing it.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

I think life is a big game we play.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

I'm a GM in fantasy basketball and I'm a GM on PlayStation, so on PlayStation I probably would have got a little more, but this is real life, so I don't know.

Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.

There's always competition out there. That's what makes life exciting.

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.

Life is great; football is better. Steve Sabol.

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.

Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.

The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

Life is a race; desire the goal.

Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.