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

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.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

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.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

Competition is a sin.

Any top-level athlete, it’s always the same. There’s always that hint of arrogance there… It’s hard to be humble when you’re the best.

We are so very ‚umble.

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

The chimpanzee study was – well, it’s still going on, and I think it’s taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we’re simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.

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.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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.

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

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That’s when I knew I had some athletic ability.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

Mine is better than ours.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

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’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

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

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‚Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

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

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

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.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

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.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

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

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

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.