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.

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

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.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘

Mine is better than ours.

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

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

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

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

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

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.

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.

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.

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

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

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.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

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

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

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

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

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.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

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.

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.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

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

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

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

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

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.

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.

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.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

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

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

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

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.