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Quotes About Competition

You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it.
~ Nick Johnson
The World Series of Poker has always attracted a competitive international field.
~ Daniel Negreanu
Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.
~ Dan Quisenberry
I'm playing in the World Series. Can't get any better than this.
~ Manny Machado
To play meaningful games and try and win a division, a pennant, a World Series, that's what it's all about. That's the thing I'm most proud of.
~ Alex Bregman
That's our goal every year, to win the World Series, like it is at most places. In L.A., it really is.
~ Zack Greinke
One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we're losers. Let's utilize the cultural opportunities, get to know the other players on the other team, look around you, enjoy your world series.
~ Cal Ripken, Jr.
I was World Series champion in individual and synchro for the first time which was awesome.
~ Tom Daley
You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
~ Cal Ripken, Jr.
If some guys couldn't stand the heat, then they didn't belong in the major leagues. I don't know anybody who refused the World Series checks I helped them get.
~ Dick Williams
Obviously, I think the most meaningful thing is winning, and winning the World Series, but the way you help your team, if that is stealing bases and you can be the best at it, I think that's pretty cool.
~ Trea Turner
Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
~ Curt Schilling
It was much more fun playing with him than against him. If you wanted one pitcher to start the seventh game of the World Series, which he did in 1945, you'd pick Hal Newhouser.
~ George Kell
The World Series of Poker was becoming popular, and there were a lot of really bad poker players out there. The misperception was that I was really good, but I just ground it out. It was a good way to make money for Box.
~ Dylan Smith
My big break was when I won 'Search for a Supermodel Australia,' and then I came second in the world series, and that was all good, but I was just having fun; it wasn't real to me.
~ Nicole Trunfio
We've got to win a championship and bring a World Series trophy back to Chicago.
~ Ben Zobrist
March Madness is an incredible three weeks. I firmly believe it's the greatest three weeks in sports. You have the Super Bowl; you have the World Series.
~ Dick Vitale
I think the most important thing is that World Series.
~ Mookie Betts
You never want to have Yadier Molina up with the bases loaded in the World Series, but, dammit, you wouldn't want a better hitter up. Maybe that's not the way most people think, I don't know. That's how I think.
~ Gerrit Cole
Who knows how many times I'm going to get to go to the World Series? I know more than anybody how hard it is to get there.
~ Clayton Kershaw
Instead of watching the World Series, I was watching Steve Austin versus Dustin Rhodes in a 15-minute Broadway for the WCW TV title at Halloween Havoc 1991.
~ Tony Khan
I'd love to have a chance to fight in the World Series Boxing for women, but nothing has been done about that.
~ Katie Taylor
Time and time again, I see former teammates, and we talk about it. It feels like we are all on the same page: We enjoyed the regular season, but we were disappointed in not making the World Series.
~ Ryne Sandberg
At the end of the day, the most important goal is to get to the World Series and to win the World Series.
~ Manny Machado