Quotes About Competition

For good reasons, there are no ties during the Stanley Cup season. Somebody needs to win so the lads can get out to their cottages on the lakes, where all hockey players spend their summers, or so I have been told.

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

The game is getting younger and the game is getting better. It has to do with Tiger and Phil, largely, inspiring everybody and brought a lot more youth into the game of golf.

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

I used to be PlayStation only, but Xbox 360 is really cool, so we play 'Live' and 'Tiger.'

I'm not scared of Tiger. I'm not scared to go head-to-head. I'm not scared to have a long-drive contest with him.

My goal is to be the No. 1 golfer in the world, and I want to chase Tiger.

Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga.

It's pretty obvious when Tiger makes a birdie. I think everybody at the golf course cheers for him.

I think what does influence you when you are going up against Rory and Tiger is the crowd, there's a lot more people milling around, there's more cameras and more distraction, and that's what makes it more difficult.

When Princeton plays Harvard, I'm rooting for Princeton, of course. Go Tigers!

When you played Kobe, it was something different. When you went to L.A., you made sure your shoes were tied extra tight. You made sure you got sleep, you made sure you ate better. He just made you better.

As the game progresses and people throw the ball more often, the tight ends have become more and more difficult to guard.

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.

There have been things over the years that didn't work. 'Body Of Lies,' directed by Ridley Scott, which I did with Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio, is a really tight action thriller, but when it opened in the U.S. it was number two to 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua.'

For a while, I was all sports all the time. Then, as I started to get into theater, they dropped away, but I hung on tight with a highly competitive Ultimate Frisbee team. It was probably less intense than I remember, but it was fun.

Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.

I play this game to be the best tight end I can possibly be and win as many football games as I possibly can.

When games get tight in the playoffs, especially in the Finals, there's no space. There's no clean looks.

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

If someone wants to be very tight about authenticity or ownership, it just sounds kind of competitive to me.

You put a real tough tight end with good hands in the hash area, and there won't be anyone who can cover him. Then you really control the passing game.

NASCAR, there's nothing wrong with it, it's very competitive, but the specs are very tight on tolerances.

Football is a game with tight results in which you don't need to be the dominant team; if you're a bit lucky and make the right decision at the right time, then you can be as successful as well.