It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.

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.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

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

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

I’m proud of ‚Stop Making Sense,‘ but it’s a little bit of an albatross; I can’t compete with it, but I can’t ignore it either.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

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

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.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

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

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 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.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

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.

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

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

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.

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

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

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

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

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

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

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

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.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

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

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

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

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

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

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

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

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.