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

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It’s all hip-hop. You can’t say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. James Brown can get on the track and mumble all day. But guess what? You felt his soul on those records.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

Kanye West is my favorite artist.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

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

When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league – Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.

Reggaeton is something else – it is part of pop culture. It is something very big that I don’t believe will ever die.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

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

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

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

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

Trap is new. It didn’t start yesterday, but when I was 5, it didn’t exist – not even in the U.S. I’ve evolved with the music.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

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

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.

I’m all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

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.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

People like bluegrass. It’s had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

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

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

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

Rock music is niche.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

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

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you’re always going to find a hip-hop tape; that’s all I buy, that’s all I live, that’s all I listen to, that’s all I love.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

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