Quotes About Competition

If you end up at a superior club, you will play with world-class players all over the pitch.

At Chelsea I knew I'd improve a lot quicker around better players, world-class players.

It's like I say all the time, it's the heavyweight division. It doesn't matter if the guys a black belt or if he's a world-class boxer. We still have a 50-50 chance.

I said Lucian Bute is a world-class fighter.

It's fun playing against world-class players. It makes you compete harder.

When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.

That's the biggest one the Worlds, second is the World Matchplay and then you'd have to say the Premier League I think.

You have to get yourself right for the Worlds. If you can't get yourself right for that you shouldn't be playing.

I've never been to the Olympics, so I don't know what to expect. It's better for me, just like my first Worlds... My third Worlds, I knew what it was like, so I was like, 'Oh my goodness. But this is my first Olympics, and not knowing what to expect is good for me.

If I hadn't won at the Worlds and claimed so many ranking points, I would have been struggling for Rio. I'm in a good place now, though, and having the chance to fight for gold in Rio after everything I've been through would be a dream.

I think for me, the most fun competition that I've had was my first Worlds.

Every year, I think of Worlds as the big meet, but now, it's the Olympics. I'm blessed to even have the opportunity to think about it and work for it.

I was a fan of Lance Armstrong, and I remember watching him win the Worlds in '93 in Oslo.

Comics are a dying art. If you ask a little kid to choose between a video game with insane graphics or comic books... you have to compete with cable, satellite TV with its thousands of channels, and with video games that are like movies, with CGI explosions where you can blow up worlds.

In many competitive worlds like luxury, things are done behind closed doors and with secrecy, so one day I had a eureka moment: for one weekend we show everything, full transparency, forget about business or commerce and showcase our work.

The fight game and the commentary game are two different worlds.

When I won the worlds in 1990, I won 70 out of the next 72 or 74 tournaments.

I wasn't even expecting to make the Worlds team.

The day after the worlds I was more relieved that Id won and become world No 1. But its different now. The next target is to win the Premier League and to defend my world title.

I started racing at club level, then the Scottish championship, then the British championship, then the European, then the Worlds. I went through all the various ranks. I spent a good ten years doing karting.

I am on a fat-free diet for most of the year, but before 'the worlds,' I tend to relax on the diet a bit to concentrate on darts.

When you win the Worlds, everyone expects a little bit more which is fair enough, but just the first crack of a whole year doing all the World Series and the Premier League; it adds up.

Worlds helped me me boost my confidence up a lot actually. It made me a bigger, better, stronger gymnast.

My worldview says that competition is the consumer's best friend.