Bill Irwin Quotes

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

A hint of competition goes a long way with guys.

It's really important to have someone in competition for your position. Because that's the way to make each other a better player.

When I train against men, I always find that I push myself harder to my absolute maximum.

Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.

I want to leave a legacy behind. I want the chance to measure myself against the top guys and to have them bring out that champion within me in the Octagon.

Competition keeps you young. It motivates you. It challenges your ego. Messi and Ronaldo have this with each other.

I guess I compete in everything I do, but it's always good to get out and be active and find an outlet for all of that pent-up aggression you had as an athlete.

I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.

If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.

At some point in your life, you try to self-reflect and ask yourself, 'Why do I want to win so bad?'

In snowboarding, I've always looked at really strong competitors through a lens of gratitude rather than envy in the sense that the better my competition is, the more it forces me to work hard, focus, and be better myself if I want to succeed, which I do.

I've always been very competitive - that runs in our family. I'd always try to beat my brother. I'd race the boys and wanted to beat them. They toughened me up. They didn't treat me like a girl.

I have never considered any player as my competitor; each one of them is good and talented, and my job is to beat them.

Playing United is the sort of thing that really gets the best out of me.

All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.

What's the point of being better than someone else?

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.

I think it's better to find somebody who's worse at everything than you. It just makes you constantly feel so good about yourself. And then, you can constantly talk about how good you are at everything, and how terrible they are at everything.

In a way, I've thrived on the competition, perhaps it has made a better player because of it.

Nor is he man enough to make a woman of you.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

I don't want to be just a face. I want to go out there and prove something on the field.