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Quotes About Competition

The high-tech business, the semiconductor business, it's very competitive. You're out there every day slugging it out, no different from players slugging it out on the ice.
~ Henry Samueli
Football is getting bigger but ice hockey is still the biggest sport back home.
~ Teemu Pukki
No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
~ Liev Schreiber
I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.
~ Bobby Orr
In ice dancing, you cannot decide your result. You just have to do your best, and you can't decide if you win or not.
~ Pauline Ferrand-Prevot
When TV came in, it closed a lot of theatres. Even the 'ice' shows melted away.
~ Kenny Baker
People don't know how fantastic women's ice hockey is. People don't know how fantastic hockey is in general.
~ Hilary Knight
In my first two world championship experiences, I barely saw the ice at all.
~ Hilary Knight
We're always up for a bit of romance on ice.
~ Phillip Schofield
I'm doing 'Dancing on Ice' and I'm just exhausted.
~ Saara Aalto
Every line expects to do big things when they're on the ice.
~ Joe Thornton
Iceland won't change. No matter who they play, they're 4-4-2.
~ Lothar Matthaus
Winning the Diamond League with a personal record, it's like icing on the cake.
~ Christian Coleman
Youth icons are born through beauty pageants.
~ Harnaaz Sandhu
Id rather play Barcelona and out-possess them and out-score them than not.
~ Angelos Postecoglou
I play a lot of golf and I'm in a little ice hockey league at home in Idaho.
~ Mats Wilander
It's not ideal for me to miss any time. I love the game. I want to be out there. I can't stand sitting the back watching games. I want to be out there fighting with my team.
~ Devin Booker
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
~ Victoria Principal
Ideally, you want to play games, and you don't want to train every day without the matches.
~ Patrick van Aanholt
It has not escaped us that other competitors have also identified health as an attractive marketplace.
~ Frans van Houten
In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.
~ Denis Villeneuve
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
~ Leo Durocher
You love football because of the game, not because of some idiot who is going to shout at your from across the street.
~ John Barnes
If you were in the UFC as a heavyweight, you'd be an idiot to not want to fight Brock Lesnar. Whether he's a good fight for you, that doesn't matter.
~ Josh Barnett