Julia Mancuso Quotes

As a footballer, you always want to test yourself against the best.

Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

We'll probably have to play the perfect game.

I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

I don't see the arts as competitive at all. It was a better angel of my nature. Sports is zero-sum: winner, loser, demonstrable.

It's always fun to compete against the best.

In every position on the field, there's really strong competition.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

Every team is beatable, you know.

One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

In all the years I played, he (Stan Williams) was the only guy who ever scared me and he was on my team.

A star can win any game; a team can win every game.

I'm looking forward to making a Super Bowl run in Atlanta every year.

Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it's going to be a competitive game.

The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, made it the Olympic Games ideal adopted at the Antwerp Games in 1920. I never mentioned winning to my players. I mentioned constantly that all I wanted them to do was the best they could. If they're good enough, the score will be to their liking; if they're not, it won't be but that's nothing to hang their head about. Sometimes the other fellow is just better than you are.

The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment.

I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.

People think I would never take on a team that has no legitimate chance to win a championship, This is one of the major misconceptions about me. Success can be measured in many different ways. . . . Either way, I would find the challenge invigorating.

You're always striving to play that perfect match.

But I don't want to be compared to anyone like to impose my own style of play and do the best for myself and for the club here.

Nothing is more thrilling than winning a match for your team.

I'm excited about the opportunity to get out there and show not only what I can do but, more importantly, what this team can do with me in there.