“We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!”
“Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.”
“My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.”
“When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”
“Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.”
“When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.”
“The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.”
“Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.”
“Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.”
“The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.”
“I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.”
“I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.”
“I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.”
“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.”
“These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.”
“I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?”
“When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.”
“The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.”
“We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.”
“When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.”
“Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.”
“The Law of Win/Win says, ''Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.”
“I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.”
“Once your physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.”
“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”
“Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.”
“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”
“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.”
“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.”
“Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.”