Competition Quotes

"I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them."

"Training is training, fighting is fighting. It's two different things."

"Whenever I'm on the field, I'm another guy."

"I do whatever the team needs to do on offense or defense, whatever it is to win. And I'm a competitor."

"Truth be told, nobody likes to lose."

"I love the sport and being competitive."

"There's plenty of times in my life I've coached against my brother, coached against people I've coached with."

"For me, not making the playoffs is a wasted season, a waste of time."

"The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win."

"Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing."

Henry "Red" Sanders

"If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing."

Bill Shankly

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is war minus the shooting."

George Orwell

"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before."

Steve Young

“You can never take a day off, because there's an All-Star on every team.”

“I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.”

“Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.”

“I've been ingrained since a young age to compete always and strive to be the best, and I think I'm working toward that.”

“Anything that's truly competitive, I love.”

“You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.”

“I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.”

“If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”

“Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.”

“It doesn't feel that good when you're ahead the whole way.”

“You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.”

“I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.”