Quotes About Competition In Sports

#1. Arizona was the best place. I like the competition in baseball, and the football program has been great for the past five years. I think I'll be playing as a freshman in both sports, and I think I can play with them.

Terry Vaughn

#2. Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

Dan Gable

#3. Music is not a contest, it's not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid.

Dave Pirner

#4. You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

Lou Holtz

#5. A good game will always snatch my attention. No matter the sport, the spirit of competition and audience is nostalgic and relaxing to me.

Chuck Inglish

#6. My position in the army is as sport instructor. This allows me generous time off for travel and competition. I also receive a monthly salary from the army.

Roman Sebrle

#7. Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

Anson Dorrance

#8. Anytime you lose one fight in the UFC, you kind of have to feel like you are on the chopping block. There is so much competition in this sport.

Charlie Brenneman

#9. I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

Peggy Fleming

#10. I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.

Jean-Claude Killy

#11. My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.

Arthur Blank

#12. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

Dwight Morrow

#13. There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

Randeep Hooda

#14. Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

Rafael Nadal

#15. Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.

Criss Jami

#16. Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

Tony Buzan

#17. Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.

Samuel Barnett

#18. I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.

Jake Hecht

#19. I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

Mitt Romney

#20. Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

George Leonard

#21. My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#22. I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.

Pat Conroy

#23. My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy, and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#24. Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.

Mariah Nelson

#25. People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition.

Jessica Ennis

#26. I've always been a big thinker that the more international competition that we create through sports the better relationships we'll have with countries.

Arnold Palmer

#27. I'm treating country music like it's a sport. I'm looking at where my competition is and realized I needed to work on my songwriting.

Kip Moore

#28. It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

Jesse Owens

#29. I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

Carl Yastrzemski

#30. I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.

Mahesh Bhupathi

#31. Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

Arlen Specter

#32. The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.

Robert Kennedy

#33. To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

Michael Novak

#34. today's heavy emphasis on competition and humiliation of your "opponent" (whether in sports, business, or family), our culture sets men up for anger and unhappiness.

Thomas J. Harbin

#35. The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.

Ai Weiwei

#36. I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

Matthew McConaughey

#37. You can look in every direction and find a competition or an event going on. Even if you're not involved in playing one of the sports being offered, you can find anything you want to do. There's shopping, entertainment, all different types of people ... it's really a great atmosphere.

Dawn Staley

#38. Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

Criss Jami

#39. Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. It's kind of a lame thing to say, but it really is.

Lance Mountain

#40. I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

Cathy Rigby

#41. Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess.

Shashi Tharoor

#42. We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.

Joe Paterno

#43. All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.

Bill Parcells

#44. Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

Dean Kamen

#45. I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

Sanford I. Weill

#46. I've always like watching competition and athleticism. Just seeing the average person going up against Gladiators, is always something I enjoy. I'm not really a big sports fan, but I do enjoy the show.

Laila Ali

#47. When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning. Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose.

Sun Tzu

#48. Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.

Peggy Fleming

#49. Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#50. My entire life, I've never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp.

Dan Pearce

#51. I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.

Chris Bell

#52. If it were easy it would not be any fun.

T Jay Taylor

#53. He was working that charm right now on the trainer who kneeled before him and touched his thigh as though it were the thigh of David, Michelangelo's glorious statue come to life right here on court.

A.G. Starling

#54. I want a life of good sport, good people and the competition that goes with it.

Randy Lerner

#55. There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

Joe Rogan

#56. Billy Beane was a guy who had been devalued by the sport as a player and now is working as a GM for a small-market team.There is such a gulf in what these teams have to spend on talent [that] they can never play equally - they can never have a true competition.

Brad Pitt

#57. Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

Trishelle Cannatella

#58. Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen ...

Ed Zern

#59. Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

Jerry Flint

#60. There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

George Will

#61. As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.

Elisabeth Shue

#62. Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Edward Hoagland

#63. You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

A. J. Kitt

#64. If you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

Tiger Woods

#65. When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because I wasn't doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.

Marisa Miller