Quotes About Competition

Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.

People love boxing, but you've gotta wait two or three years for your favorite boxer to have a fight.

I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I'm scorin' too much.

You gotta win; that's all I care about.

I gotta respect our sport, my division, and the guys that are fighting in it. That's what I gotta do.

I've gotten a lot of attention, I think, just for being myself. I think that a lot of people, when they come to a competition, are afraid to be themselves no matter who they are.

I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.

Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.

In order to govern, you have to win.

Business is doing better than governments.

Governors compete. States compete. People & businesses decide.

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.

In football, especially at international level, opportunities come along and you have to grab them.

There's always a number of champions in each division but when you can eliminate everyone else and grab all those belts, that's what I want to do.

At the end of a career you're desperate more than ever for medals, grabbing as much as you can as you go.

Sometimes I have two or three players around me, grabbing me.

Rory... well Rory likes winning. No one has ever won with less grace than Rory Reid.

I was first runner-up, and there is something to be said about losing gracefully.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

I haven't always been as gracious a loser as I could have been.

When you have a lot of talent, you don't necessarily have to be gracious and consider everyone.

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.

You go to the Grammys and you say, 'I don't care if I win or not,' and of course you care.