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

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.

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.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

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.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

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.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

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.

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

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 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.

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.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

My trainer don’t tell me nothing between rounds. I don’t allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It’s too late for advice.

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.

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.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

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

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

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

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

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

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.

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

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

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

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

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

You’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.

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.

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

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

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

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

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

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

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

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.

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.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

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

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.

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.

Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.

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.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

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

Obviously everybody, if you’re playing in the league, you’ve got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.

I shoot the ball so well that sometimes you fall in love with it and think it’ll get you out of certain situations.

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

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.