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Quotes About Competition

The playoffs are like nothing else. The intensity is off the meat rack and I'm looking forward to going back.
~ Shaun Livingston
People need to know that they can make a living. We are losing a lot of the best athletes to other sports at the age of seven or eight, which is exactly the time when you want to get a racket into their hand.
~ Tim Henman
People think coming in under the radar is like being a fighter pilot and actually coming in under the radar. It's a completely ridiculous idea to come in under the radar. It's the Olympics; everyone is on the radar here.
~ Bode Miller
Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time.
~ Evan Williams
Who's on my radar? I don't have a radar. I always look at myself as a top athlete. They come after me. I don't go after them because I'm where they want to be.
~ Terence Crawford
The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.
~ J. R. Moehringer
It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.
~ Lennox Lewis
When you play the Oakland Raiders when you're the Kansas City Chiefs, you know they're going to come out with that mentality that they're going to win. They're going to come out fighting. It's a rivalry game.
~ Patrick Mahomes
When you play for the Raiders and you play for Al Davis, it was always the talk that it was Al Davis against the rest of the league. Some of the calls that we would get, we would always say, 'Oh we got that call because of Al's relationship with the NFL.'
~ Charles Woodson
You play against an opponent so much the numbers got to match at some point! I played against the Raiders six years straight pretty much. I played against them more than any team I've ever played.
~ Emmanuel Sanders
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.
~ John Moody
Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.
~ Peter Diamandis
Third and 10 down by four at Lambeau Field in the drizzling rain... two minutes left. There's nothing like that.
~ Steve Young
I've skated after Yuzu a handful of times. The only thing I can take away from it is to be prepared for the Pooh-bears to be raining down from the audience.
~ Nathan Chen
As soon as it rains, I am very good, very, very competitive; when the track dries it is not so easy.
~ Jos Verstappen
It will be almost impossible for any other candidate to raise the money that the Clintons can raise.
~ John Catsimatidis
Whenever you play with better competition or play against better players, it raises your level of play on both ends of the court.
~ Joe Harris
If all you needed to do is to figure out what company is better than others, everyone would make a lot of money. But that is not the case. They keep raising the prices to the point when the odds change.
~ Charlie Munger
My domination is getting so strong that it's starting to become much clearer now who's the best featherweight, but I've been raising this debate for a long time.
~ Patricio Freire
I don't think too many guys are raising their hands trying to fight me.
~ Derek Brunson
You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table - mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.
~ Robert Greene
On clay, you know that you have much longer rallies, and you must run for maybe two or three hours.
~ Angelique Kerber
Svitolina moves a little bit better than Ostapenko but Ostapenko goes for it a little earlier in the rallies. The way she plays she can take you out of the equation.
~ Mats Wilander
Sometimes I play good shots, good rallies, and then there is hundreds of mistakes and not a good shot.
~ Karolina Pliskova