Quotes About Competition

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything

It's given many great performers their start, but more importantly, it's killed thousands of barely talented people and it's put them to death, and they're now doing the jobs they're built for.

If you don't win anything, you have had a bad season.

Bill O'Reilly

In the mid-1970s, players did not fraternize before games; in fact, oftentimes they genuinely did not like each other or resented one another's success. It was before the modern big-money era of baseball when the players, each flush with cash and the accouterments of prosperity, began treating each other as coworkers and comrades in a billion-dollar enterprise.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

He hit .200 with 14 homers in his career, but four of them were off Hall of Fame pitchers: Sandy Koufax (twice), Fergie Jenkins, and Gaylord Perry. "Every time I see Gaylord, he says, 'Here comes the worst day of my life,'" Uecker said

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they don't know the game.

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

That's our starting five: '86 Bird, '03 Duncan, '85 Magic, '92 Jordan and '77 Kareem. You cannot assemble a better five-man unit of modern guys.

So here's the final Wine Cellar Team: '77 Kareem, '03 Duncan, '86 Bird, '92 Jordan, '85 Magic (starters); '86 McHale, '92 Pippen, '09 Wade, '77 Walton, '10 LeBron, '09 Paul, '01 Allen (bench).

not only did Bird's team win, but Magic choked badly in crunch time of Game 2, Game 4 and Game 7. (I mean, badly. Like, everyone rehashed it all summer.)

his 1999–2000 season (24–7–9, 153 steals, 45 percent FG, 82 games, 3,425 minutes) ranks in the pantheon of Greatest Point Guard Seasons Ever Ã¢â'¬Â¦

He played for six championship teams. He reached ten Finals and fourteen Conference Finals. His

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

If they've managed to bring more firepower than us, we deserve to lose. But we aren't going to lose, because we're the Page sisters and we're librarians.

Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way.

Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.