Quotes about "Sports & Competition"

As an athlete, success is not just about winning; it is about working hard and giving it all you have. I have always taken one match at a time and worked hard; when I succeeded, I worked further on the aspects of the game which worked for me; when I failed, I listed out my weaknesses and worked on them. ”

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing. ”

There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances. ”

My own introduction to music came quite early. My father didn't have much of an education, but he was keen for me to get some qualifications, and I ended up winning a choral scholarship to a cathedral school. ”

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake. ”

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself. ”

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story. ”

The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized. ”

All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants. ”

When I go back to seek inspiration - whether it be from Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, the Beatles, Hank Williams, Ray Charles or Bob Dylan - it's from the performance. Those artists are in the studio playing their instrument and singing. There's no going back and redoing the vocals. ”