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Quotes About Competition

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
~ Camille Paglia
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
~ Jackie Robinson
I need to do well and show I'm a worthy driver in F1.
~ Lando Norris
I would want to fight in the UFC or Bellator. Why CM Punk? Anyone, just a worthy adversary. It can't be a world-class fighter.
~ Logan Paul
I don't think that humankind is worthy of trust when we can't let go of war, draw borders between neighboring countries, seek to become richer than others, find joy in defeating others at sports, and choose someone of the opposite gender based on their appearance.
~ Yoko Taro
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
~ Anna Jameson
If you draft a player to be a backup, why did you draft him? You're drafting a guy because you think he's worthy of being drafted at that spot, but you're also drafting him because you think he can compete. If you're going to say, 'This guy's a backup,' - really? That doesn't make any sense to me.
~ Herm Edwards
I don't even want to fight Pacquiao now because Pacquiao fought Jessie Vargas, Chris Algieri, Jeff Horn... They were talking that Terence Crawford wasn't a worthy enough name for Pacquiao. Why are those guys worthy when a fight with me and him would've been bigger than any of those?
~ Terence Crawford
Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.
~ Vladimir Putin
It's a treasure to be part of a Game 7 against a worthy opponent.
~ Erik Spoelstra
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
~ Yogi Berra
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
~ James Naismith
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
~ John Mason Brown
I would never do 'Dancing With The Stars,' because it's just not fair. I am too good of a dancer. It would be like LeBron James playing little league basketball.
~ Terry Crews
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
~ Yogi Berra
I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.
~ Edward Furlong
Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business.
~ Alex Berenson
Yes, my pageant career was incredibly short. I started at 19 and was done at 21. I started by competing for Miss California Teen, which I wound up winning, and I literally just entered the contest on a whim!
~ Meagan Tandy
At Penn State, I ran distance and cross country as a walk-on. I wound up running a lot of marathons, 30-plus. I was okay. I won one in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. I think it was around 2:30. I could crank those out all day.
~ Mark Parker
Sparky Lyle threw me a slider, and it wound up in the seats. We won, and it was a memorable moment.
~ Richie Allen
When I first knew that I wanted to rap I was seven years old and I lost the talent show. It was like spoken word or something. My mom made me do it. It was a Langston Hughes poem. The girl that came on after me, she wound up winning. She was a singer.
~ Rico Nasty
I'm not in the business of bayoneting the wounded. I feel the blockchain revolution is kind of my victory. I don't care whether I win it, someone else wins it.
~ Patrick M. Byrne