James Russell Lowell Quotes

In Uruguay, we are competitive; that's part of our character.

I've been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don't know whether I'm particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country's best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.

I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.

All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.

One thing will not change - we will be going out to win.

Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.

No one remembers who took second place and that will neverbe me.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves.

Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.

I saw all that [white trash] growing up in Alabama and Georgia. I had a group of country cousins and we'd go visit them when I was a kid. They lived on a red dirt Georgia back road, in a shack, with twelve kids. Farmers. No electricity, they had a well on their back porch, but they had nothing, yet they were the happiest, freest people I'd ever met. I loved to visit them. Great sense of humor, and they kept up with all the latest music, country, rockabilly, that stuff. Great food they grew in the fields and canned. Happy people.

In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

I am a competitor and always have that itch until the day I die, but I won't let the itch supersede being a businessman.

I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.

I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.

It's important not to make the gold medal bigger than it is.

I want to win, I want to win everything. If I have a chance to win, why not?

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.