Quotes About Competition

I add status to any tournament I attend.

It's just a matter of throwing in a few sacrifices, then checkmate!

I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it.

Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.

It's just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something.

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.

Many of us have joined a swim team at one time or another, and there is a shared foundational experience here that's worth examining. Battle past the desperate life-or-death phase of swimming, and you begin to appreciate how good the water feels. Join a team, and you begin to appreciate the company you keep. Competition happens when you get good enough at swimming to want to be better.

So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.

Al subir al ring, el púgil más preparado es el que ha intentado conocer a su adversario. Sobre todo si eres tú mismo.

My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong.

Thus began the Great Tar Fight...

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

You cannot imagine how much the presidents of the entire world hate each other.

Competition, which is said to be "the life of trade," when pushed too far, is no less the death of it--and of the soul.

Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times over. To hell with the pain. What's six minutes of pain compared to the pain they're going to feel for the next six months or six decades. You never forget your wins and losses in this sport. YOU NEVER FORGET.

That first game of the fifth set goes deuce and several times.