My freshman year, the hate was all directed toward Danny Ferry. And every year, there's some new poor sucker at Duke who draws the ire of everybody.
The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!
I think as competitors, that's why we get into this, to gain respect from the guys who have played the game, and you walk away and they say, 'He was a tough cover - that dude was nice.'
As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.
The best thing I've ever heard another player say is, 'I hate playing against you.'
Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.
No, I don't want to play with Tom Brady. I want to beat Tom Brady. I want to play with Dak Prescott.
For me, Lionel Messi is quite clearly the best player ever. It’s a pleasure to put myself against him and when I finish my career it’s something I can look back on and know I’ve tested myself against the very best.
Fighting is different than other sports because you're not competing as regularly.
The Williams girls compete extremely hard on court because they hate losing - it's just that they haven't played an awful lot of tennis over the years.
I loved playing in the Big Ten, where it's three yards and a cloud of dust.
You come into the NBA, dudes are trying to come after you. You're a rookie. They look at you as fresh meat.
I'm a winner...I'm a competitor. That's what I do. It doesn't make sense for me to go over and shake somebody's hand.
We're in Madison Square Garden, I can't let you beat me in Madison Square Garden, are you serious!?
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
I don't want to be Kobe, I want to be LeBron.
Everybody wants to do a fight with me, champions at 170, champions at 185.
As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
There are so many really good players in the men's game that no one person can dominate year after year.
It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.
I don't ever go into a fight wanting to hurt someone. I just want to show them that I am better than them, and if they get hurt, it's part of the sport.
I'm anxious to face them (major league pitchers) all, but in reality I'm looking forward most to (Boston's) Pedro Martinez. He was with the major league team that came to Japan in 1996, just before he became a superstar. I'm anxious to see how much he's improved. And I'm anxious to see how much I've improved against him.
Remember every team wants to beat Chelsea, probably even more than Manchester United or Arsenal because they believe we have an unfair advantage.
You love the competitive one-on-one aspect, where you look across the net, and you're trying to beat your opponent. You're doing everything you physically can to win on that day.
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
