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Quotes About Competition

It's tough to lose, but it's a lot tougher to lose knowing how good it is to win, how good it feels to win.
~ Brad Marchand
The general public perception is that fighting robots were popular, and then went away for a long time, but in reality, there have been live robot combat events happening continuously since 1994. And all the while, the robots have been getting better and meaner and tougher.
~ Grant Imahara
Being in the UFC doesn't mean you're the best. UFC is tough too, but Bellator is tougher.
~ Patricio Freire
Make no mistake, the days and hours before going into the ring can be stressful for any boxer. The bigger and tougher the fight the greater stress, But if a boxer knows he's stepping out of his league it's even worse.
~ Carl Froch
Every year you go out and there are teams you have success against and there are teams that are a little tougher.
~ Martin Brodeur
I am gradually building my career fighting tougher and tougher opponents.
~ Carlos Condit
I have played against many players, but I will always consider Lee Chong Wei as my toughest competitor.
~ Lin Dan
Hedge funds are other hedge funds' toughest competition. And there are just more of them, and it's tougher and tougher all along.
~ Julian Robertson
The toughest defenders I've faced are Alessandro Nesta, Paolo Maldini, Ivan Cordoba, Ciro Ferrara and Walter Samuel.
~ Filippo Inzaghi
The toughest away match in La Liga for me used to be the one against Osasuna.
~ Luka Modric
I consider Billy Keeler, Mike Tiernan, Ed Delihanty and Larrie La Joie the toughest hitters I had to pitch to, but I did not dread them. Remember, Hughie Duffy was a member of our team, so I did not face him. In my opinion, Duffy was the greatest hitter.
~ Kid Nichols
You don't have to be Einstein to see that horse racing is dangerous. Those two ambulances driving behind you aren't there for the scenery. I will never get over the fatalities of colleagues. It is the saddest and toughest part of this sport.
~ Tony McCoy
I want to fight all the toughest guys in the world. I'm not trying to duck anybody or scared of anybody. I want to fight everybody.
~ Luke Rockhold
I thought this was the UFC and we're supposed to be the best and toughest fighters in the world.
~ Tony Ferguson
The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
~ Cal Hubbard
London 2012 was the toughest time in our relationship but also the best. Things could get fractious - we were both competing for gold - but standing next to my brother on the start line for a home Olympics was so special. I remember saying: 'Let's go.'
~ Alistair Brownlee
I was lucky enough to play against Maradona. He and Ronaldo, when he was at Inter Milan - they were my toughest opponents.
~ Paolo Maldini
Against Bermane Stiverne, they said he was going to be the toughest test, but I passed that with flying colours.
~ Deontay Wilder
A lot of people don't understand that playing in the NBA, the toughest thing is to win an NBA championship. I was in the NBA 15 years. I'd been in the playoffs. I'd been in the Finals. But it took me 15 years to finally win one.
~ Rashard Lewis
The toughest opponent for me would have been Randy Savage, the Macho Man, because his intensity paralleled mine.
~ The Ultimate Warrior
I started as a short filmmaker and found that one of the toughest challenges was getting your film to be watched. I would enter it in competitions and release it online, but getting a mainstream theatre-going audience to view the film is difficult.
~ Karthik Subbaraj
When you're doing something like wrestling - wrestling is one of the toughest and hardest martial arts to learn - but it's still a form of martial arts. It's still controlled.
~ Kamaru Usman
The Premier League is the toughest league in the world, so it's never going to be easy to get minutes.
~ James Maddison
Messi and Ronaldo are the toughest. But I would also place Eden Hazard of Chelsea, Neymar of Barcelona, and Karim Benzema of Real Madrid on the list.
~ Jerome Boateng