Quotes About Competition

The team we had, the Hobie Vita-Pakt Super Surfer team, you know, the Hilton boys were on there, Conrad Hilton's grandkids, and they were really good. After being around those kids, I could ride a little. Do a 360, some kick-turns, stuff like that.

The first year I started liking the Dolphins was Super Bowl VI, which they lost to the Cowboys. I was 5. My whole family was pulling for the Cowboys, so I rooted for the Dolphins. They lost, and I cried.

Every year that you enter this business and this game, the goal is the Super Bowl.

Losing a Super Bowl destroys all the good things that happened to get you there.

In the end, the Super Bowl is just a football game. You try to take a couple of big, deep breaths and convince yourself it's just another game. You try to, anyway.

I think everyone's goal at the beginning of the year is to get to this time, to get an opportunity to play in the Super Bowl.

In my world - advertising - the Super Bowl is judgment day. If politicians have Election Day and Hollywood has the Oscars, advertising has the Super Bowl.

The reality of going to the Super Bowl was beyond words, as was the disappointment of falling short.

If you don't win a Super Bowl, you're not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.

Super Bowl kicks, those are the most memorable moments.

Do I want a shot at the belt? Yes, of course I do. Put it this way: I am Barry Sanders on the Detroit Lions. You love to watch me, but you'll never see me play in the Super Bowl. It's just one of those things. It's about politics. It's not about fighting.

I did play flag football. I actually got my lip busted. My team was really good; we won first place in the season, and won the Super Bowl. I was one of the defense guys. I was really good.

When you really think about it and look at the number of quarterbacks who come through the league, not many of them have Super Bowl careers.

Even when I was playing, I never thought much about the individual honors. I wanted to go to the Super Bowl.

The intensity of the Super Bowl is one-of-a-kind. An NBA finals is best-of-seven. But the Super Bowl, one game, winner-take-all. The intensity is off the charts.

The thing is, once you're in the Super Bowl, you want to win. As time goes on, you want to win more and more.

Like me personally, I'm not a huge football guy, but I do watch the Super Bowl every year, and I get into it because it's exciting.

There is no future. This is the season. Get to the Super Bowl.

Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.

We're all brought up to believe that the best players show up in the biggest games, and what bigger game than the Super Bowl? I've just been blessed and very lucky to have two of my best games on that stage.

Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.

Winning the Super Bowl would be way more special than the rookie rushing record.

A good season for me is going to the playoffs and making a run for the Super Bowl and having a good record.

That's been the dream since you were a little kid growing up. You want to be the guy playing in the Super Bowl. It's what you live for, really.