Quotes about Competition
I love championships. That's when I want to be at my best. I love those environments. It brings the best out of me.
— Jessica Ennis-Hill
I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball.
— Michael Jordan
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.
— Ezra Taft Benson
It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]
— Publilius Syrus
Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.
— Muhammad Ali
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
— Donald Trump
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
— Bill Gates
Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.
— David Brinkley
I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.
— Muhammad Ali
I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that.
— Michael Jordan