Quotes About Competition

Ortiz into deep right field. Back is Sheffield," FOX-TV announcer Joe Buck said making the call, and then as the ball landed over the wall, "We'll see you later tonight!

The series moved back down to Yankee Stadium for Game 6, where Schilling would get a second chance to make 55,000 Yankees fans shut up, but first there was the serious matter of the torn tendon in his right ankle.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned how to dance- waiting for the bathroom.

It's a great day for hockey.

The fittest of the fittest shall survive !

If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying.

Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second.

By mid-1966, an astounding eighty-eight Lennon-McCartney songs had been recorded in over 2,900 versions. Gershwin finally had competition.

Red ice sells hockey tickets.

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

I'll play a lot, stake matches. Not like the Russians. They win the championship and then hide for three years." — Bobby Fischer, in 1971. Fischer, of course, did not keep his word and hid for 20 years instead of three.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.

That's what chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.

Chess is life

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

I wanted to become world champion, and in this respect school couldn't give me anything… It is better to be one of the strongest chess players in the world, than to be one of many thousands with a diploma.