Quotes About Competition

I'm an Olympic champ. I defeated Demetrious Johnson. I defeated T. J. Dillashaw. You think a World Series of Fighting former champ is gonna scare me?

We play to win the World Series, and that's our goal.

Every year you go in and you obviously want to win a World Series, at least make the playoffs.

Winning the World Series is really all that we play this game for.

Getting to say you're going to the World Series is a pretty special thing.

Watching guys win the World Series looks like a lot of fun. I'd kind of like to do that.

The pressure of the World Series and the playoffs, it gets to you. But I hope I feel like that every year. Because hopefully we're playing into November every year.

For five or six years, I didn't play in some of the good games leading up to the World Series of Poker, because with so many below-average players there, I reasoned it messed up my game.

It's weird coming into a game in the later innings, in a World Series game.

Everybody knows the World Series of Poker is the biggest stage in the world. This is where you make your name.

If I was at the final table at the World Series of Poker, that would probably be the most exciting thing I've ever done in my life. And believe me, the UFC, the announcing in the Octagon, is extremely exciting.

Soviet mathematics was particularly good in the second half of the 20th century, basically because of the arms race, because the Soviet Union realized... World War II created the conditions for the Soviet Union to become a superpower.

By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was the dawn of a new golden age of the American Novel, like the Hemingway-Dos Passos-Fitzgerald era after World War I.

In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.

America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.

Hashim Amla is someone that stands out. He's a world-class player and I have not had a huge amount of success against him.

When you're a young lad in a team like Arsenal, you feel like, of course, you deserve to be at the club... but you're on the periphery, and there are world-class players and more experienced players around you.

Talking about world-class player, no player is easy to play at this level. Each player has a different style of play.

Rather than allowing students and teachers to celebrate their success, some would rather we measure success in Britain in terms of failure; that our education system can only truly be of a high standard if significant numbers lose out. This is no way to build a world-class education system.

You want the world-class players playing at the World Cup, and you want them to do themselves justice.

When I moved to Seattle in fourth grade, I joined the Seattle Girls' Choir. It's a world-class choir, and we competed, toured Europe, and went and sang at the Vatican, so it was a really awesome experience to have that young.

I'd been at Chelsea for a while and progressed quite quickly until I got to the first team, and then it was different. I was used to playing every minute of every game, but when you get to that level, the step up is massive. There are world-class players in front of you, and no matter how talented you are, breaking in is difficult.

I want to fight the guys that are world-class beaters. That's who I want to get in there with.

I have the fortune of playing with world-class stars.