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Quotes About Competition

If I am not playing to win, I don't want to play.
~ Joao Moutinho
Play tough Australian cricket. Whether we like it or not, that's in our blood. If you try and walk away from it, we might be the most liked team in the world, we're not going to win. We won't win a game.
~ Michael Clarke
It is a big title to win, but in the Champions League, you don't need to have the consistency that you need in the league.
~ Kevin De Bruyne
If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
~ Carl Hubbell
I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
~ Caitlyn Jenner
As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.
~ Bill Williams
When you're in the second set and you start thinking I have to win this and get it over, the pressure to finish quickly can get to you.
~ Pam Shriver
I've always been very competitive, and I've always had this desire to win my entire life. I guess when it comes to being in the cage, especially, I just hate losing more than I like to win. The idea of someone beating me just doesn't sit well.
~ Paige VanZant
There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it.
~ Michael Owen
The football is different to England, but it is a very high level in China. The Chinese league is growing all the time, the owners of the teams invest a lot of care, they want to win and this makes the league very competitive.
~ Aaron Mooy
There's so many levels. You can rise on the day to win a national event or a world title but the level you need to rise to win an Olympics Games is another one altogether.
~ Caroline Buchanan
In football, even when you do your best on the pitch, you can win or lose. That is the nature of the game.
~ Gianfranco Zola
I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.
~ Katarina Witt
Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!
~ Jon Polito
When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.
~ Boris Spassky
It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.
~ Apolo Ohno
When you win or lose, no-one dies: you win, or you lose.
~ Jordan Henderson
We're gracious and we're humble, and we play the game a certain way, whether we win or lose.
~ Megan Rapinoe
Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
~ Venus Williams
I would like to fight as hard as I possibly can in each and every game and win or lose, leave it at that, and move forward. I know in my heart that that is the mindset I need to be a successful and happy athlete.
~ Christen Press
Tension is the greatest curse in sport. I've never had any tension. You give the best you have - you win or lose. What's the difference if you give all you've got to give?
~ Chief Bender
As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
~ Wayne Rooney
When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
~ Wayne Rooney
Film is similar to a basketball game. When that buzzer sounds, win or lose, the only thing you can control is how much effort you put into it.
~ Justin Lin