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Quotes About Competition

I've been doing som jogging at home recently and every time I try the distance I end up beating his time with like three or four seconds.
~ Zach Braff
I grew up extremely fast. I was racing at the age of five. I was racing on a semi-national level by the time I was 16. It makes you grow up fast.
~ Justin Allgaier
Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.
~ Justin Langer
The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.
~ Katarina Witt
You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.
~ Kieran Bew
People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.
~ Lawrence Taylor
I do not think the crowd affected us, but the position of being in a big time game may well have affected us.
~ Les Miles
I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.
~ Libby Trickett
My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.
~ Lindsey Vonn
When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.
~ Lloyd Waner
It took a lot of time for me to understand that I'm not competing against anybody but myself.
~ Luis Gerardo Mendez
I watched the Olympics as a kid. It would be fun to try to win a medal. If I could swap Olympic gold for a US PGA Championship? I'd take the Major every time.
~ Luke Donald
Um, yeah 15-year-olds don't lead at an LPGA event all the time. But like I said, I'm very surprised. I've been playing really good golf and I'm confident with my game.
~ Lydia Ko
The next time that we meet we meet as enemies!
~ Lynne Ewing
I'll be peeing like a champion in no time
~ M. Leighton
By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman.
~ M.I.A.
It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
~ Maisie Williams
I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
~ Marat Safin
Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored
~ Margaret Mahy
Any time a new technology is introduced, like when TV was first invented, everybody was like, "Radio's dead."
~ Maria Rodale
If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.
~ Mariano Rivera
I watch 'Jeopardy!' every night and 'Wheel of Fortune' follows. And every time I'm like, 'Whoa, it's still on! This is still happening!'
~ Martha MacIsaac
F1 is a fight for people's time. There are millions of options today for how to spend it. That is probably the biggest difference from 1968 to now.
~ Martin Sorrell
[Formula One] is entertainment and it competes with other entertainments - and not with other racing formats. It competes with people's time on a weekend. So you have to deliver.
~ Martin Sorrell