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Quotes About Competition

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.
~ Rogers Hornsby
I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.
~ Don Drysdale
That's the trouble with the women's game. Those women think they're men, and they go off hitting all over the place. They'd be better off if they'd played like women.
~ Bobby Riggs
The competition I played against was fantastic, but golf is a different game now. The courses have shrunk because the equipment has gotten better. They're hitting the ball 10 to 15 percent farther because of the changes in the golf ball.
~ Hollis Stacy
I started with golf because I saw my brothers play, I was always watching them. It was my life. Growing up, we always played competitions like chipping, hitting.
~ Lexi Thompson
I felt like, by the end of the week in the U.S. Amateur, I was never aiming at a flag; I was just hitting it at slopes and just letting the natural contours take over.
~ Peter Uihlein
I'm just going to go out and play. At the end of the day, you are still hitting a little white ball with your clubs.
~ Peter Uihlein
I played other sports, so when I played golf, I wanted to have fun. And hitting it far is fun.
~ Gary Woodland
I don't enjoy hitting people; I enjoy outsmarting them.
~ Jon Jones
If I hit the Klitschkos with the same shots I was hitting John Ruiz, both of them would go over.
~ David Haye
I like football. It's fun winning the ball from someone. It's fun shooting at goal. It's fun hitting a ball over 60 metres that arrives. It's like in golf: if you hit a ball, and it flies and flies and flies, you enjoy it.
~ Lothar Matthaus
I love hitting those big sixes.
~ Vijay Shankar
Nobody had Trackman when we were 15 years old. In terms of hitting it far, I've always hit it further than anyone else in my age group.
~ Xander Schauffele
I love practice, I love hitting, I love the game.
~ Terrell Suggs
I don't want to act like hitting homers isn't a great feeling, because it is.
~ Nolan Arenado
If your hobby is playing sports, at the end of it you might get a few concussions.
~ Tyler Childers
Every day is a great day for hockey.
~ Mario Lemieux
Canada is hockey.
~ Mike Weir
Hockey is definitely a huge sport in Boston.
~ Joe Thornton
I just enjoy playing hockey obviously.
~ Alexander Ovechkin
And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.
~ Wayne Gretzky
I grew up playing football. I'm a huge hockey and football fan.
~ Danielle Campbell
For me, it's not a struggle to go out and play hockey. Under pressure, I feel it to a certain extent... but, I'm not scared of it.
~ Martin Brodeur
If you lose a race or game in hockey, you lose a game. That's it. If you lose a fight you might lose part of your brain because of the damage.
~ Georges St-Pierre