Quotes About Competition

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

When I indulge in envy, I envy everyone who has ever achieved anything.

Most of those who tried to be the best failed. So I tried to be the second-best, and sometimes I succeeded.

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.

I get my rocks off curling.

Saying of the sport

Curlers rock and roll!

Curlers do it hard.

It's often people whose jobs are abstractions that see a company as a zero-sum game where they have to fight and defend what's theirs to stay alive or get promoted.

Afraid you won't be able to keep up," needled Volant, interrupting. "I thought you were The Fastest Flier in the Sky?!" "Really," said Gabby. "That's how you're going to play this?" "Yep, slowpoke, that's how I'm going to play it." And without another word, Volant the eagle launched into the air, pointed south, with not so much as a glance back.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car, I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

If you finish first, your friends may become jealous, your family might think you've gotten too big for your britches, and your competition might put a target on your back. So it's better to not compete. Better, that is, for your friends, your family, and your competition. But it's not better for you. Donald Miller

Seven hours of commercial-free football start now!

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?" "One that has something better," said Locke.

Are you smarter than my chicken?" cried a weathered, wild-haired woman holding a nonplussed bird over her head. At her feet was a wooden board covered with numbers and arcane symbols. "Lay your bets! Test your wits against a trained fowl! One coppin a try! Are you smarter than my chicken? You might be in for a surprise!

Well, hell. It's been five years. Maybe she's learned to lose gracefully. Maybe she's out of practice." "Maybe trained monkeys will climb out of my ass and pour me a glass of Austershalin brandy," said Jean.

But this is silly—we could sit here all night contrasting cock-lengths. I say mine is five feet long, you say yours is six, and shoots fire upon command.

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?" "One that has something better" - Locke Lamora to the Gray king

Of course I'm cheating," said Chains. "Game's no fun unless you cheat. When you figure out how I'm cheating then I'll know you're starting to improve.