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

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.

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.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

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.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

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.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

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.

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.

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

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know – you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn’t mind it if I didn’t.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

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

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

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

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.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

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

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

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

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.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I’m the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

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

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.‘

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

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

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.

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

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

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