I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

The potential financial reward for building the ‚next Windows‘ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Bring them on.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know – you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.

Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘

Too much TV hurts movies.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

I used to go missing a lot… Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Mine is better than ours.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.