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Quotes About Competition

I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
~ Calvin Johnson
There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.
~ Rebecca Lobo
Obviously, I'm going to go out there and want to win. Don't get me wrong. But I'm not going to not have fun or not enjoy myself at the same time.
~ Nick Kyrgios
When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.
~ Robert Kennedy
Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction.
~ Vladimir Kramnik
Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, 'Lord, you're in the wrong place tonight.'
~ Joe Frazier
If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
~ Natalia Kills
My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.
~ John Irving
It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abetting the wrong side in the global digital arms race.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
I actually felt bad because I was dunking the ball so much. I led the league in dunks one year, and they told me that was the wrong thing to do.
~ Shawn Kemp
It would be the completely wrong thing to go into games with fear.
~ Ilkay Gundogan
When I'm auditioning for something, if it's not me, I really hope the part doesn't go to me. You know what I mean? I don't want to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. If it's me, wonderful. If it's not me, there's space for all of us.
~ Rachel Keller
I feel like I've definitely let some good finishes go because of pushing too hard at the wrong time.
~ Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
If you're scared to lose rather than excited to win, then that's the wrong way to approach a race.
~ Cate Campbell
With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!
~ Maika Monroe
In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.
~ Tom Heinsohn
I always commit myself to the teams I play for and always want to win. I hate losing. It's just that, at times, I go about things the wrong way, and that created problems.
~ Diego Costa
Just following 'Survivor' over the years, sometimes if an individual is not a threat and he doesn't rub anybody the wrong way and he can get into an alliance, he can hang out there for a while.
~ Jimmy Johnson
We have the utmost respect for any team we play, football is a game where there is no right or wrong way of playing.
~ Kasper Schmeichel
There's no right way to do it or wrong way to do it - that's why so many drivers have been caught in wrecks at Talladega.
~ Denny Hamlin
Many people are blind and only care about the UFC. That's the wrong way of thinking. The proof is Michael Chandler, coming from Bellator, having such a devastating victory in his UFC debut against a highly ranked opponent.
~ Patricio Freire
I would draw a really big distinction between competition, or potential competition, and a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest implies wrongdoing, whereas competition is really healthy.
~ Bill Maris
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.
~ Laurence Housman
Every child has played video games growing up and played WWE games. To be part of a video game, it's an unbelievable experience.
~ Finn Balor