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

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.

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

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

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

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

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

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

I think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

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.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

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

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.

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.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

Bring them on.

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

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

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

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.

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.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

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

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

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?

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

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.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

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

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

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

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 – with the goal of making flying good again.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

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

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

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.

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.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

I’d love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what’s what.

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

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.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

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