Competition Quotes
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I didn't realize until I was doing commentary what a gladiator-like competition tennis is - other than no one dies. The crowd is waiting for the players to come, and they walk through the tunnel, and they get on the court, and they get out their rackets, their weapons, and now they start.
Martina Navratilova
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My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.
Lindsey Vonn
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Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
C. Wright Mills
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Even if we were friends, I consider this a sport, a competition, so there are no ill feelings towards any other fighter or whatever.
Alistair Overeem
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It's not good to focus on one person or two persons about being your rivals. The important thing is just to train hard and be ready for the competition and to prepare for the races so that in case of anything that comes out, you are able to handle it.
David Rudisha
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The competition started in Chicago in the '60s when lead singer Kevin (Cronin) was in a band in south Chicago and the members of STYX were in another and they were archrivals.
Neal Doughty REO Speedwagon
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Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.
Arthur Lydiard
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Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.
Keeth Smart
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Competition among schools is always a great motivator.
John Rowland
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This level of competition is extremely high. Everybody is trained. Everybody has a game plan. Everybody has a nutritionist. Everybody has everything. It's here that you realize, as people, we're all equal.
Alistair Overeem
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Thou shalt not covet, but traditionApproves all forms of competition.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition
W. Chan Kim
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I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition.
Dalai Lama
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I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
Maria Sharapova
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Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?
Chuck Grassley
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My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.
Amy Sherald
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Music isn't a competition.
Benjamin Clementine
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Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.
James Surowiecki
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I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.
Walter Isaacson
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In middle school, I was boy crazy and it was the worst! I would always lose, too. I was more into the competition than the boy by the end of it! I just wanted to win!
Elizabeth Gillies
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We felt like we had some other players that fit the role for us and do a lot of things for us. It was a competitive thing.
Joe Gibbs
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Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
Marshall Field
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I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.
Alan Shearer
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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
Patti Smith