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Quotes About Competition

I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
~ Dick Butkus
With all my fights, my style is to pretty much put a beating on. I don't exactly like hurting people, but unfortunately that's what we need to do in this game to win.
~ Alexander Volkanovski
There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side.
~ Sebastian Coe
Competing is different than violence. Sport is love. It's passion. There's no passion in hurting people.
~ Rohan Marley
What hurts most is whenever I am leading, and then I lose the match, it is disappointing, and there are so many such matches.
~ P. V. Sindhu
Losing hurts me.
~ Chris Evert
It hurts like hell when you come into a contest and you end up being second best.
~ Alastair Cook
Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.
~ Chris Evert
When people think Arsenal had a bad season and we've had a good one, yet they still finish above us, it hurts.
~ Harry Kane
Every game that you lose it hurts, but especially when you lead 2-1, and you lose 4-2.
~ Hugo Lloris
For sure, when you are being beaten by your team-mate, it hurts.
~ Niki Lauda
Whenever a fellow coach is sacked it is not good for any of us - it hurts. You just have to accept it because it is part of the game.
~ Diego Simeone
Whenever you lose, it hurts.
~ Joe Root
It's always tough when you're fighting with your husband on the court.
~ Li Na
For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in.
~ Rufus Sewell
I hustle, I run down the line, I do whatever I can to win ball games. Those are the only things we can control as baseball players.
~ Manny Machado
I learnt the game as a kid hustling car dealers for cash.
~ Jimmy White
I did rough hustling, what they call 'playing against the wall.' I just played myself with the players, so I would pay; I would make them shill. I would pay certain players and then take from others.
~ Harry Anderson
To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.
~ Dan Hill
I would encourage someone to go to Brazil and try to do business there. BRIC countries get a lot of hype, but business there is brutal.
~ Shahid Khan
I am used to the hype because I played in the NBA.
~ Penny Hardaway
I'm hyped up by true competitors, I'm hyped up by real athletes and sportsmen.
~ Greg Hardy
It's hard to judge somebody before or after a fight. Adrenaline is flowing, and you're hyped up.
~ David Haye
The hysterical competitiveness in the media bazaar has subverted the traditional hierarchy of news.
~ Barkha Dutt