Quotes About Competition

I think everyone lifts themselves that little bit extra for the Tour de France, being the pinnacle of our cycling calendar.

I agree it is the most important, but cycling is not only about Tour. If everybody thinks like Armstrong, there will be only one race.

As we all know, the concept of the gimme putt is anathema to the PGA Tour.

I've always said it: I don't want to be the only Columbian playing on the PGA Tour, so, guys, just play some good golf and come join me here.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

I wouldn't do just a tour, it would have to be an album, and the album would have to beat Pull.

The woman's tour is very tough for all of the players.

On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.

The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.

If you do have a team where every rider has a huge list of results, that means everybody wants to do the race for themselves. The strongest team in the Tour is not the strongest team on paper.

If you weren't a risk-taker, you were always going to be a step behind. You could be the best cyclist in the world, but if you weren't a risk-taker, you weren't going to win the Tour de France.

I like to challenge myself. There are not many guys on tour who can give me a challenge in Ping-Pong. So I'll throw some points to see if I can come back.

I would agree to some extent that on the Champions Tour that there is a greater premium on putting than the regular tour because of the course setups.

I think 'Amazing Race' is sometimes like being on tour.

When you're the oldest rider at the Tour de France, you really feel it.

Final pairing on Sunday in a PGA Tour event? If you can't get up for that, you better find something else to do.

There are guys you've never heard of who drive the ball better than anybody I've seen on the PGA Tour.

You get nit-picked in the media. Stats are always up saying he doesn't drive it straight enough or hit enough greens or whatever it is. Then you have to perform, because if you don't perform, then you're off the Tour.

If we went to the Tour, I'd have to think, what would our purpose be? Would it be to win the Tour de France? I'm not sure I want that pressure.

When you see it from the outside, then you see just how great the Tour de France is.

When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit.

When we toured with AC/DC, we always had to bring our A game. They really felt like our equals.

The Moon! Mars! Asteroids! Rockets! Helium 3! Space solar power! Space tourism! We go through fads, swarm around the hero de jour, and spend far too much time trashing the other guy's ideas in favor of our own.

It's not like I am going to Barcelona as a tourist who is there to watch Messi in action. I am not going to say that I will bench Busquets or anything! But I think I have a good chance of getting plenty of minutes.