Competition Quotes

"You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die." "You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen." "There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game." "The true competitors though, are the ones who always play to win" "There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game" "When you are talking about a great player, if you can't remember who he played against or some of the guys, he played against ain't great" "I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there's no pressure, then I'm not in the perfect zone." "The whole damn world is just as obsessed with who's the best dressed and who's having sex" "Too many easy victories can ruin a fighter just as much as a long line of defeats." "I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can." "These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess." "People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning." "Losing is losing. There aren't different degrees of losing. You either win a championship or you're shit. It's very black and white to me." "I focus on one thing and one thing only—that’s trying to win as many championships as I can." "I saw you come in and I wanted you to know that it doesn’t matter how hard you work, that I’m willing to work harder than you." "Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing." "I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted." "Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank." "If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize." "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"