Quotes About Competition

If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.

Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and his own nervous system, all at the same time.

You can't compete with Sweets' sound and time feel. It's impossible.

You gotta be a good sport! So when I would lose, I would say, "That guy was better than I was; what do I have to do to be better next time?"

Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.

We have a lot of rule changes. I am part of the competition committee. We spent a lot time evaluating the game, how do we make the game better for our fans.

He just got his neck broke one time, I'm not tryna break his neck again, that's not what I fight for. I fight to have fun, not to hurt nobody.

If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.

One hundred and eighty, divided by three, is one dart at a time

I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there.

The game must have been past my bed-time.

Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.

We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.

Every time someone starts talking about weight, it takes away from the fight. No one is born at that weight. We grew into that weight. It is all about the challenge, more so than the weight.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

I would be happy to run a race with Hillary Clinton any time.

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.