My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing.

During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.

You can be as nice as you want off the field, but when you're on the field, you're going to do everything you can to win.

We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village,...

In knockout football, it's one bad game and you're out.

The success of one film may convince the filmmaker to try to repeat his successes and get into a competition with himself. One cannot dwell on periodic successes. You have to look at it as a...

I want to be part of real reality shows, but don't want to do shows where I am told to give more points to one candidate because he/she is from a particular state. We have to judge by merit.

I'm locked in no matter what I'm doing. If it's a competition, I'm locked in.

The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict...

Drag Race is a competition.

The guys I fought, so many of them are coming off wins or ranked or coming off winning streaks.

Pretty much all the drivers I get on with, at least to say 'Hi' and have a conversation. But when the helmet's on, you don't care who it is. You have no sympathy: someone blows an engine in front of...

I don't think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I will continue to play, and that's the way I'm succeeding in my life. If I hit you by mistake, all I can say...

I compete every moment, and my competition is only with myself.

Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone...

Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.