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Quotes About Competition

Do you remember being at school and picking sides for a game of football? We do this at Liverpool for the five-a-sides. Diouf was 'last pick' within a few weeks.
~ Simon Kuper
Clubs know they cannot operate without opponents, and so unlike in most businesses, the collapse of a rival is not cause for celebration.
~ Simon Kuper
Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.
~ Simon Kuper
A club like Bayern Munich, which shuns debt, is in fact missing a trick. Bayern could easily borrow a few hundred million dollars to make itself invincible against human opposition on the long term.
~ Simon Kuper
We are in the midst of a global battery arms race where, at present, the US is a bystander
~ Simon Moores
I hate games I can't win.
~ Simone Elkeles
Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win....by big margins.
~ Simone Elkeles
Feelings can't be a part of this game.
~ Simone Elkeles
Mr. Latino with the big ego got bested by a ditzy, blond bimbo.
~ Simone Elkeles
Brittany flew out of school today, following Burro Face. Before I left I saw them together in an intimate conversation by the back field. She picked him over me, which really shouldn't surprise me. When she asked me in chemistry what she should do, I should have told her to dump that pendejo. Then I'd be happy instead of pissed off. ¡Es un carbón de mierda? He doesn't deserve her. Okay, so I don't, either.
~ Simone Elkeles
Dating is a lot like sports. You have to practice; you work out; you study the greats. You hope to make the team, and it hurts to be cut.
~ Sinbad
More than a hundred new airlines went into business around this time, although the casualty rate was extremely high: in 1994 alone, fifty-seven new airlines opened for business, of which thirty-seven closed within two years.
~ Siobhan Creaton
Strive to win or learn in spite of competition.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
The easy way to be smarter than your competitors, is to do what they don't do.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
~ Sir Alex Ferguson
Play up! play up! and play the game!
~ Sir Henry Newbolt
You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record.
~ Lleyton Hewitt
I love the NFL. I don't have a team per se, but I'm into it.
~ Noel Gallagher
You can't love your team without hating another team.
~ Norm MacDonald
I would love to have a race against Usain Bolt one day! It would certainly be a good challenge for me.
~ Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.
~ Rajneesh
People love to see people fall.
~ Joe Rogan
You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
~ Maya Lin
Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.
~ Rashida Jones