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Quotes About Competition

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.
~ Kris Kristofferson
I was 11 years old and have the same curveball I have now. So I was literally striking everybody out. I always threw hard, and I was bigger than all the kids, so I would throw hard and throw that curveball, and no one could hit me.
~ Drew Pomeranz
Everyone has 4 ounce gloves on, and they're big boys, and they can throw hard.
~ Stipe Miocic
I think if you're talking about 'Jeopardy' style, I'm not afraid to throw the deep ball, even if it might get picked off, so Deshaun Watson I think would be the best comparison.
~ James Holzhauer
We have a long history with Japan. When South Korea play against Japan, the fans tell us that if we lose, they are going to throw the players into the sea.
~ Park Ji-sung
I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.
~ Joaquin Andujar
I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.
~ Lev Grossman
I like seeing girls throw down.
~ Mackenzie Foy
It's football at the end of the day, and throwing the ball is what I love to do the most.
~ Josh Allen
I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.
~ Al Oerter
I'm just throwing a name out there, but I think Nate Diaz and myself could actually put on a good show.
~ Tony Ferguson
We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.
~ Dan Marino
I would say darts is probably 15 per cent throwing. The rest of it is mental strength. Being able to hold your nerve.
~ Rob Cross
In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.
~ Lee Westwood
Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.
~ Bob Packwood
The baseball fights, you don't ever see the squaring off like you do in hockey, and in some instances, that's where baseball fights can be potentially more dangerous because you've got guys running all over the place and people throwing punches at you that you don't even see half the time.
~ Tom Glavine
I was an athlete when I was younger and played a lot of sports, including golf, but I always ended up throwing around my clubs in frustration.
~ Eric Winter
We're a long way away from someone like Willie Pep winning a round without throwing a punch.
~ Brin-Jonathan Butler
I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.
~ Jorge Masvidal
I like throwing touchdowns instead of running them.
~ Lamar Jackson
I was always throwing a fit about it, like somebody I was fighting had their hair painted and I would be like, it's not enough that this guy has to win a fight against me, but he's gotta do it with his hair being on blast, like big mohawk. Just a wild man.
~ Nick Diaz
When I was younger I used to get really nervous before games, so much so, you are almost throwing up before games.
~ Phil Jones
I love competing, and I love throwing the football.
~ Taysom Hill
I never was a sick like throwing up type of guy. I get nervous with the butterflies in the stomach. I was never a throwing up kind of guy... I'm kind of a pacer. I can't sit down. I can't sit still. I guess that's why I don't ever sit down the whole game.
~ Philip Rivers