Competition Quotes
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People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.
Bryce Harper
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It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.
Lennox Lewis
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The Olympics are always a special competition. It is very difficult to predict what will happen.
Sergei Bubka
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From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and rewards and punishments, I was pushed to theories of disequilibrium and disorder, and information and noise, as the keys to understanding economic progress.
George Gilder
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Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.
Charles Tillman
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Since 2000, it's been a privilege and honor for me to be on the competition committee. And our main focus... is player safety.
Jeff Fisher
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I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.
Michel Gondry
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The bottom line is that the impacts of climate change can exacerbate resource competition, threaten livelihoods, and increase the risk of instability and conflict, especially in places already undergoing economic, political, and social stress.
John F. Kerry
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If children can't handle competition when it's necessary, or take some criticism, or never strive to be better because their parents inadvertently programmed them to believe they are already the best even when they're not, then they are in for some serious shocks and bumps down the road.
LZ Granderson
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She's done a great job. She and her staff have really brought the level of competition up ... I believe the future is very bright for Pittsburgh. Very, very bright.
C. Vivian Stringer
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My hands are heavy and most importantly they are very fast. I have been called the fastest white man alive. I don't work submissions and not because I am trying to prove something I'm just frankly not very good at 'em. I am very good at getting away. I've never fought anybody whether it was in practice or competition who could hold me down. Even if I thought I could get a submission I'm not laying underneath a grown man with my legs spread on worldwide T.V. Some guys subscribe to that theory but I am a Republican and we don't do that
Chael Sonnen
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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.
Amy Purdy