Quotes About Competition

It's always nice to hit a home run, no matter if it's your first or your last. It's always fun, especially for me. I don't hit many.

At the Home Run Derby, you're expected to hit home runs. You're up there trying to hit home runs.

That was my dream since I was a kid, since I first saw a vale tudo event in my hometown of Sao Paulo. I wanted to compete.

George Foreman is back and he's in the middleweight division. That's the way I feel about fighting in my hometown.

I have to do my homework, be fast and consistent. In that case I have always beaten my team-mates.

At Ferrari they didn't give me the space, and at Honda I had the space but I didn't have the machinery.

For me, basketball was the way I was able to hone my leadership skills during the heat of competition.

Every fight, honest to say, in this division, at this level, is a toss-up. It's a 50-50 chance.

Football is not a sport populated by honest people. You can't tell the truth or be up front with people. It's a business, and no one is friends.

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

I just wanted to win on the road, honestly. I don't remember the road ever being this tough.

In all honesty, I just love car deadlifts.

The thing about boxers is that there's respect there. You beat me, and I may not like it, but you know what, deep down inside, I respect you. And that's the code of honor.

It's an honour, of course, to play against the biggest players in the world.

Of course it's an honour to be fighting at UFC 100, but I don't sit back and think about that. For me, it is only ever about winning.

With Ronaldo being one of the greats, probably one of the best players ever, it's going to be an honour to hopefully play against him.

I always wanted to be the best at what I did; I wanted that at university, I wanted the first-class honour and to be the best in class.

Kareem copied my hook shot.

Basketball is basketball. And whether it's male, or female, or has any other label attached to it... that really doesn't matter to me. It really doesn't matter who's playing. Hoop is hoop. Game is game. If you have it, I'll recognize it. Period.

All we can do is come in here and hoop, play hard, stay competitive and try to win.

It's never like I go sneaker shopping just to get shoes for a hoop game.

You might get fouled and have a no-call, but let's still go out and hoop. Just beat them up the other way, and that's with the scoreboard.

They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'