Quotes about Competition
The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
- Billie Jean King
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
- Glenn Beck
So many times, football is really unfair.
- Xabi Alonso
A wolf can only curse a lion when surrounded by its peers.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The earliest bird gets the worm only if the worm is stupid enough to show up.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
- Billie Jean King
I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.
- Michael Jordan
The Olympics had never really been on my agenda. I had been a huge sports fan growing up, But it never really occurred to me that I would have a chance to participate.
- Tim Henman
Colorado Springs is a very good place to train ahead of the Olympics. We get to compete with different partners, learn different movements, we also get to improve upon our speed, which is very essential.
- Geeta Phogat
It's been nice to hang out with my friends in the sprint car world just because a lot of drivers in the sprint car racing community are some of my best friends.
- Kyle Larson
This sport is so tough so it's nice when you go run a sprint car and go win a race.
- Kyle Larson
I was in the football, rugby, cricket and hockey teams at school; bit of squash. Tennis obviously.
- Tim Henman