Quotes About Competition

Clearly Bolt would beat me over 100 metres on the track. But on grass, over 30 metres with a ball at my feet? I'm winning that race every time!

People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.

Not winning and those types of things are difficult. There is no doubt. You can't say they are not.

Maria Sharapova winning Wimbledon at 17, I don't think that's ever going to happen again. It's a different game now. I need to stay focused and work on my game, and it will come.

You don't want to get too comfortable if you're winning and start trying to be a number 10.

I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.

I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out.

I've never been a numbers guy. Numbers don't excite me. Winning games excites me.

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.

I love winning. Maybe it's more that I hate losing?

Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.

I am only about winning and getting better.

No matter what the situation, winning takes care of a lot of stuff. Things are never perfect, even when you win. But it does make for a lot better environment, for sure.

A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.

Nothing will ever feel like winning a Daytona 500. I'm never going to do anything in broadcasting, probably anything in any other professional job that will feel like winning the Daytona 500.

'Jeopardy!' contestant Ken Jennings' winning streak has been nothing short of remarkable.

Normally when we play against Brazil, we will just try to stop them from winning.

I hope the feeling of standing up on the podium winning gold will never get old.

When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us.

In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.