Quotes About Competition

To compete in the Dakar Rally is a lifetime ambition for me and is something I know I have to do.

I didn't want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot.

Except for a very few elite pro racers up front, the Dakar Rally is not, at heart, a contest among the competitors; the battle, instead, is between mankind - more precisely, Western mankind, with all its fire-breathing machinery and inexorable arrogance - and Africa, which has been proving itself untamable for centuries now.

I'm John McEnroe-like. I'm coming forward every opportunity I get. My wingspan covers some ground at the net. My serve is OK. I can move it around enough. My groundstrokes are good enough to hang in a rally with a good player. But generally, my goal is to put away a point quickly.

I love the Dakar Rally, the Baja stuff.

With experience also comes the understanding that you have to beat the rally before you can beat the competition.

When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock.

Football, no one wants to ram into people. It's not human nature. You have to have a lot of incentive to ram into somebody to benefit others.

I ran track, and I was really good at it. I was really fast.

I did athletics when I was at school. I ran the 100 meters but I got beat once so stopped doing it.

I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.

I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

I ran for president of the student council at my high school in Louisville. And ran against a guy who I thought was better known and little bit better student and managed to win.

When you think about martial arts here in the states, kickboxing was here in the '70s, and it kind of ran its course. But I always felt there was a place in combat sports for kickboxing.

I ran a high-tempo offense in college. You don't really get caught up in it.

A lot of players have had it worse than me. Look at a guy like Andy Roddick, incredible Hall of Fame player, but he ran up against Roger so many times in big finals.

Nobody was going to beat Barack Obama in 2008. That's a fact. It was his moment. It wasn't that John McCain ran a bad campaign, or picked the wrong VP. It was just that it didn't matter, it was over when it started.

I came into Impact and I ran through the entire Knockouts locker room just like I said I would.

I ran back punt returns and kickoff returns, and I played a pretty good game.

When I played, I would never, ever try to run Reggie Miller off the line because I knew Reggie. If I ran at him, and I was trying to run him off the line, I was going to get kicked.

I don't understand why everybody can't remember how exciting the Daytona 500 has been over the years when Richard Petty and David Pearson and Darrell Waltrip ran just the three of them racing for the win. Why do you have to have 40 cars in a pack to say it's exciting?