Larry Ellison Quotes

If we are running sprints, I want to beat everybody by 10 yards. If we are playing checkers, I want to win: I'm pretty good at checkers, and I'm trying to get on chess.

I'm a bit of a thrill-seeker. I used to race mountain bikes when I was a kid. I did the national circuit for two years.

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

I would love to be a grinder on some race yacht.

To me, everything's competition.

I love getting out of bed for competition.

I'm going to outplay you. That's the mentality I have, and you should want to outplay me.

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

I'm very, very competitive. If my grandmother asks to race me down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it!

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

I love the sport and being competitive.

Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.

If I'd won every single race and got pole everywhere, that would just be boring. It would suck. Where's the fun in that?

One of my favourite things to do is compete for a crowd. It's just really fun for me.

Being the competitive guy that I am, I can't get into individual battles like I have.

Of course it's a nice challenge to compete against a grand prix winner.

I like it, but I think second base is too boring.

I love sports, and I'm a hugely competitive person.

As long as the title's on the line, that's the match I want to be in.

If you play a match, then you got to give it all to beat the opponent; there is nothing like playing against a great or a non-great player. I treat them all as opponents and aim to beat them.

I want to play every game, obviously.

I'm not a competitive player at all, but I don't want competitive games to go away, because for some people that's why they play games, to compete.

The descents are quite fun - everybody has a sort of competition and tries to go for it and then you compare top speeds when you get to the bottom.

I always want to go up against the best competition, I want to have as many championship matches as possible.