In this post, you will find great Competitive Quotes from famous people, such as Dove Cameron, Tom Frieden, Nancy Kerrigan, Barry Mann, Carson Wentz. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
I’m very competitive and academic.
CDC is supporting community efforts by establishing competitive grants to support local programs to help individuals and families to get healthy and stay healthy.
There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
I’m incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I’ve always been like that.
My father has always enjoyed games… always with a combination of the fun and social side of it, but also always highly competitive.
Nothing is more important for young people than enhancing their life chances, liberating their potential and encouraging their contribution to a globally competitive and modern economy.
The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace.
European-style interventions to which the Obama administration is inclined will not make America more competitive in the world-wide economy. Such policies will not increase growth, will not decrease unemployment, and will not increase wages for workers.
We need open, competitive, market economies… but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.
So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.
I’m very competitive, and I want to win.
It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don’t think it’s possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.
At the end of the day in our sport, you just have to sacrifice yourself completely to put the team first. That’s not easy for us because we’re so competitive, but that’s the most important thing when it comes to World Championships.
Toyota is competitive in anything they do.
The market for religious apps is fiercely competitive; searching for ‘bible‘ in the Apple App Store returns 5,185 results. But among all the choices, YouVersion’s Bible, funded by LifeChurch.tv of Edmond, Oklahoma, seems to be the chosen one, ranking at the top of the list and boasting more than 641,000 reviews.
People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
I love the Sonoma wine community. It’s like Pixar – nothing competitive, only supportive. They’re always rooting for you.
Because of outdated regulations, workers in different types of contract often have unequal access to healthcare, pensions, education, and training, as well as other social benefits. This has to change for countries to remain competitive and for our businesses and workers to survive in the digital age.
I can’t do any competitive sport myself!
The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.
It’s important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.
I grew up not having very many girl friends. Girls tend to be competitive. I actually went to the school ‘Mean Girls’ was written about, so you can only imagine what my high school experience was like!
By taxing CO2, firms and households would have an incentive to retrofit for the world of the future. The tax would also provide firms with incentives to innovate in ways that reduce energy usage and emissions – giving them a dynamic competitive advantage.
If we’re not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive.
I’m a racer at heart more than anything else, and that will always be my priority: competing. But ultimately, if you can’t drive, you can still have the competitive spirit outside of a car.
Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.
I’m a very competitive person.
The one show that I will continue to be a guest on is ‘The Daily Show‘ with Jon Stewart, if he’ll have me. It’s not competitive with CNN and it’s too much fun.
There are a lot of things I might be good at, such as competitive figure skating, window washing from ten stories up, and being an open heart surgeon. I might also make an excellent Kamikaze pilot – except for the fact that I don’t want to learn how to fly and have no interest in taking my own life on behalf of Japan.
Liberal democratic states can’t remain globally competitive.
If black people use their resources properly, they can become as competitive as any group in society – take control of our neighborhoods, our businesses, our schools, including our teachers. The only thing keeping black people from doing it is this idiotic idea about integration, about being racially balanced.
Look, I am very competitive.
To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
I also think we live in a competitive world, and I love competition.
I’m not afraid to say I’m competitive.
I’ve never been competitive with anybody but myself.
I was discovered by Paul Marciano of Guess when I was actually, like, two years old. And so I started with Baby Guess; I did Guess Kids, and then I stopped because I was a really competitive horseback rider and a club volleyball player. I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers for volleyball. So, I kind of stopped modeling.
I’ve always been very competitive, and I’ve always had this desire to win my entire life. I guess when it comes to being in the cage, especially, I just hate losing more than I like to win. The idea of someone beating me just doesn’t sit well.
The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.
I believe that companies that are independent are more competitive, ultimately.
I’m a competitive type of person, whether it’s playing a game of basketball or playing business games.
I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.
I think there wouldn’t be a Net neutrality debate in this country if we really had a competitive environment for access.
I’ve worked with people and I’ve known people that were really competitive, but I’ve always said that I take an Elizabeth Bennett philosophy of life – I laugh. I love my job, but if it means hurting someone, I won’t do it.
I have an innate passion and competitive streak to win and to create, and I want our team to be better than everybody else. Some people thrive in that environment, and some people don’t.
The bottom line is the best consumer protections are competitive, innovative markets that are transparent. Now, they need to be vigorously policed for force and fraud, but the agencies that do that need to be accountable.
I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I’d taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008.
I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
We must update our country’s workplace policies to remain competitive against other developed countries.
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
I always try to find companies I see eye to eye with. It was an easy collaboration with Hyland. They’re a well-rounded player and always try to find certain strategies to give their clients a competitive edge.
We always want to see each other do well. And I think we all want to win. As competitive as you are, you always want to win.
I want to get good enough so I can play in Mia Hamm’s golf tournament for her foundation and have an event of my own someday. I’m so competitive, I don’t want to go and just pretend I’m a good golfer.
Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.
I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
I thrive on physical confrontation. It’s a competitive juice in me. I’m always going to have that in the back of my mind. So whether I’m 49, 59, 69 or 109, I’m always going to think that I can go out and compete.
In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you’ve got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.
Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.
An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.
We should be growing and make ourselves, as a state and a nation, more competitive. India, China and these other countries are not waiting for us.
Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you’re fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?
‘Cloud 9′ is an action/romantic comedy that focuses on the competitive world of snowboarding. We have glamorised it to so that all the players are on the cover of magazines, have all the interviews, and be on the television: so it is very high stakes.
Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I’m more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
One of the reasons I’m an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn’t athletic and didn’t have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.
The movie industry is very competitive, and if you’re like me and you suffer from your own insecurities about whether or not you’re any good, that can be troubling.
I was never an A student. I never really liked going to school like many of my friends. There were just too many students and too competitive. We were sort of forced into studying to go to college. It was like if we didn’t go to college, society looked at us as failures. We didn’t know what to do with the situation.
You just have to know what your responsibility is to the movie, and live up to that, and be considerate of the other actors in the scene… I have never been competitive in that way – I always want my leading ladies to be as good as they possibly can be.
I knew that I was different. I gravitated more toward playing house, but the teachers were always pushing me toward playing the more competitive games with the boys. I spent so much time wondering, ‘What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I fit in?’
I’m a competitive person.
It’s very hard to be a playwright because it’s very competitive.
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
I’m the most competitive person you’ll ever meet.
The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.
I have a competitive streak.
One of the reasons we are profitable is the changes that we’ve made and the long-term relationships we’ve built with major corporations. We have gotten out there and put our nose to the grindstone and simply been competitive.
The Term Paper Artist’ represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
There just needs to be a gay rapper. He doesn’t have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay – who’s better than everybody. Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever‘s the best.
I’m freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness.
I’ve always been a fighter and always competitive.
Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential.
If someone wants to be very tight about authenticity or ownership, it just sounds kind of competitive to me.
As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don’t feel like I have any nervousness out there. I’m just a guy who really cares about being competitive and that’s the bottom line.
I think the first thing that goes through my mind, when I think about corporate tax, is that we need to think about where we set the rate on a global basis, and make sure that the U.S. is competitive.
I knew the Big Ten was one of the best conferences in the country. Every night you’re up against pros. It’s just so competitive. You can get beat by any team. That’s really what I like about the Big Ten.
Anyone can see that, say, superheroes and vampires perform well at the box office. That in turn can trigger competitive bidding situations and soaring fees for people who can bring these properties to the screen. The result can be a dramatic increase in the costs of production.
One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.
The Midland community is huge into softball. They have a lot of competitive men’s teams. We played at a beautiful stadium, and our games would be packed every weekend. I’m pretty sure people have my signature on softballs and they don’t even know. Because we would just sign so many autographs all of the time.
I thrive in competitive environments. I’ve never been in a monopoly.
It is particularly challenging for women who are trying to stay competitive in a real estate market where men really don’t have the same degree of safety concerns.
The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.
I danced for 10 years. I was on a competitive hip-hop team, but then I, like, grew seven inches in one year – not really, but I grew tall and really lanky, and I lost all my coordination.
An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It doesn’t sort of enter into our economic system because it’s a consequence of running things in a highly competitive way: the free market, global pricing and so on.
I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I’m still at the top.
You know, I stopped being competitive after I played football.
Tennis is so competitive. I guess that’s the way it has to be.
Airlines are very competitive.
We’re very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That’s the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.
I am someone that is very competitive. When I’m on the field, I compete. When I’m practicing, when I’m in meetings. I’m a competitor in everything.
A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they’ve had a competitive relationship with their own father.
I’m really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?
I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don’t have it in me. I’m not a competitive person, and I’m also really private.
On bikeback, there is a delightful sense of self-direction and autonomy. Lately, I have taken to cycling slowly, more fun than the fast, competitive commuter cycling I used to do. No longer do I jump lights or attempt that irritating wobbling thing that semi-professional cyclists like to indulge in.
I’m ambitious but I’m not particularly competitive. I’ll try to get roles, as I think it’s healthy to go for things, but… I think there’s too much competition between women already. It’s important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.
I’ve never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.
We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy!
Building fast-growing, globally competitive companies is tough.
I’m very competitive. When I was, like, four, I would see a Shake ‘N Bake commercial and see a little girl on that and think, ‘I can do that. I might be better.’
I’m a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I’m a gym rat.
We moved to the city when I was 7, and the lack of exercise made me frustrated. I started fighting with my sisters, and my parents put me in judo as an outlet. I became very competitive and won a lot of medals.
Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.
I think I was just a very competitive child.
NASCAR, there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s very competitive, but the specs are very tight on tolerances.
I’m a competitive person.
We should reconsider greater integration of North America to achieve a region that is more competitive and capable of creating more jobs.
I’ve been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.
When I released my first record, I was really in the middle of having made the decision to follow the clinical psychology path, which is competitive, rigorous, and fairly conservative.
Design is a powerful factor in communication between disciplines and stakeholders and can transform knowledge into creative, human-oriented solutions that can promote companies’ and countries’ competitive ability and foster innovation and growth.
I take laser tag incredibly seriously. I am an extremely competitive person – most likely a little over the top at times, but that’s just who I am.
Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.
A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don’t get to that level if you’re not.
I believe in free markets. I believe in free trade. I believe in creating the conditions that will allow that to happen. And if we do that, American companies are going to be pretty darn competitive.
You can’t have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.
I’m not at all competitive. I’d rather play Solitaire than ping-pong.
If we get a tax system that is competitive, we will hire people. When you hire people, you have to compete for labor. When you compete for labor, you drive wages.
Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly.
You still slightly down that you’re ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That’s the territory of being an actor. It’s like anything that’s competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.
I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.
Central Philippines has the competitive edge in tourism in its natural wonders and the extraordinary hospitality of its people.
Guys that are competitive and love to play the game of football and love their teammates, you can’t have enough of those guys on your team.
In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids’ yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.
Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory.
There is an opportunity to consolidate the North American region as a more competitive region, a more productive region that will be more competitive than other blocs that have integrated in the rest of the world.
You get around people who see us away from the track, and it’s a pretty big contrast. You’re still competitive, and you still want to win everything, but I think in the car, we’re focused and passionate all the time. We get outside the car, and we’re a lot more relaxed and easygoing, enjoying things away from racing.
I’m blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We’re all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody.
I’m at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn’t competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I’ve gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
There’s nothing masculine about being competitive. There’s nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don’t know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.
To all companies large and small, I would say this: the British economy is fundamentally strong; we are highly competitive, and we are open for business.
In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams – and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child.
The only things I’m competitive in are backgammon and poker.
Individually, we’ve taken the world on and won; together, we must take on the challenge of creating a new, peaceful, humane and competitive nation and prevail.
I probably went into sports with a sense of competitiveness and came out of it even more competitive.
By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!
As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.
Our financial markets work best when they are competitive, fair, and transparent.
Having more customers means nothing if America’s small businesses cannot obtain the required capital to support their exports in the competitive international markets.
I’m a competitive person. Business is a much more competitive sport than any real sport. It’s 24x7x365. I’m a business adrenaline junky.
After I got done playing basketball, I needed a competitive outlet.
I’m not here just to walk two rounds or four rounds and just show up. I want to be able to be competitive, and I truly believe I can still be competitive when I’m playing well and feeling good.
You going to call me arrogant for believing in myself? Come on! It’s a competitive sport. Rappin’ is the closest thing to boxing. Jay-Z said that. You gotta fight every day.
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
He was competitive in every fight and brought his best every time out, so I have nothing personal against Froch. I actually like him a lot because he reminds me a lot of myself with his competitiveness.
I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It’s not.
There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It’s what I call ‘competitive tension‘, which is about having a competition around.
Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you’re playing is music that’s been here for years. And all you’re trying to do is improve upon it when you play.
I’m competitive at everything.
I love the sport and being competitive.
I don’t know that I came across as being real competitive on ‘The Bachelor,’ although maybe I did a little bit on ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ I am a born competitor. The bigger the challenge the better!
I guess I’d like to have my cake and eat it, too. I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.
To stay attractive and competitive, the U.K. should take measures to ensure that skilled talent keeps flowing in and out the country.
For a competitive and sustainable economy, the U.S. must have a skilled and well-trained workforce that can meet the evolving needs of industry, such as in education and health care.
Small businesses no longer need to feel like a deer in the headlights when considering constructing or updating their Web sites. With ClickThings what you see is what you get, unlike some other competitive Web-based Website building tools.
I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.
I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.
It’s not that things won’t change – they can’t help but change. Things are becoming more and more competitive.
Scientists are sometimes as competitive as professional athletes, maybe.
There are no gentlemen in anything competitive – you want to win.
I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.
If you are going to think the same as everyone else and do the same as everyone else, you will end up being the same as everyone else. In today’s competitive environment you have to think a bit differently.
My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.
One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men’s football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to play abroad.
When I fought the Tories over climate change and won, more than trebling renewable power with a new subsidy policy combining state intervention with competitive market forces, it was world-beatingly radical.
There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren’t competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We’re all of these things. We’re complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.
I’m probably the only person who goes to work and says ‘Wow, it’s really nice here and sweet,’ even in the competitive movie business.
I love the Olympics. Something about the Olympics just makes everything competitive.
As companies become bigger, the global environment more competitive, and the rate of disruptive technological innovation ever faster, the value to shareholders of attracting the best possible CEO increases correspondingly.
The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar.
I’m just competitive. It doesn’t matter what it is. I want to win.
You can’t compete with hip-hop. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to be as big as a rap star. I do – I’m always competitive. But there’s this weird perception of me as someone who’s sitting around plotting like a devil. It’s not like that.
The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It’s to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won’t deliver it.
I’m very competitive but in a very nice way.
I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.
All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
The ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000s genes of competitive fire are dead and gone.
I have very high expectations of myself. I’m a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I’m eventually better than everyone else then so be it.
If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.
I always tried to win. I was as competitive as I am today.
Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg – there’s always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.
Many economists are great believers in the idea that everything in nature is competitive and that we should set up a society which is competitive to reflect that. Anyone who cannot keep up, well, too bad.
I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.
I think to be a great quarterback, you have to have a great leadership, great attention to detail, and a relentless competitive nature. And that’s what I try to bring to the table, and I have a long way to go. I’m still learning, and I’m still on a constant quest for knowledge.
Each day, we’re sharpening Iowa’s competitive edge in education and expanding our workplace partnerships with job-ready, STEM savvy, lifelong learners.
We imagine that some people will jump into the AR and VR space that are complementary. We look at Google Glass. It’s very complementary. It’s not competitive. It’s a different experience. It’s used for different purposes.
My mom played every sport possible. My dad is ‘extremely’ competitive. You can’t even play Ping-Pong with him.
I’ve been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.
The football is different to England, but it is a very high level in China. The Chinese league is growing all the time, the owners of the teams invest a lot of care, they want to win and this makes the league very competitive.
It’s a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It’s funny now to think about it – that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me… I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.
I’m not sure if this is a good thing or not, but I’m not a very competitive person.
I’m more a competitive person.
My goal was to build a meaningful sports business that operates at the highest levels in the areas of business that we compete in. I have an intense desire to be successful, and I’m extremely competitive.
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature – and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.
All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence.
That’s part of the character of Shanghainese people. They’re good negotiators, they’re very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that – very competitive. That becomes part of your personality: Shanghai personality becomes part of yours. Just like New Yorkers – they’re often like that.
I’ve discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common – a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.
My guilty pleasure is competitive cooking reality shows. I don’t like cooking shows when it’s just about cooking. It has to be competitive – they’re fighting and yelling at each other. I am obsessed with those shows, and I have no idea why.
My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it’s a good kind of competition; it’s not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can’t be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?
People sometimes ask me to name the greatest coach in NFL history. George Halas may have set the standard, but Don Shula has won more games than anyone, and he has done it in the most competitive era. He had an incomparable ability to evaluate players, to motivate them, and to teach them the game of football.
I’m competitive with myself.
Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don’t win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional.
I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
Dave Camp, in my view, made tax reform inevitable in the sense that he showed you could broaden the base and lower the rates and simplify the code and be competitive around the world and make it more understandable.
Actors are like magicians. They’ll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It’s very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.
I don’t have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents – those constantly striving for betterment – have any hope of surviving.
I am a very competitive person.
I’m naturally competitive, and I always want to win and always want to help our team win. So I always want to be on the field.
If you really want to be competitive in today’s market you have to be in movies that make money.
Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It’s time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
Businesses that make consumer privacy a point of competitive differentiation will enjoy greater customer loyalty.
I’ll miss the competitive side and the camaraderie of being around the players and competing each and every day.
If you look right from the beginning of the season I’ve been very competitive.
I’m a competitive player, and I love being on the court. If the NBA cancels the season I’m definitely looking at my options and considering going overseas.
By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America’s potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.
The space elevator‘s not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space.
A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.
Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.
I wouldn’t say that I’m very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That’s really easy to draw from when I’m acting; that’s probably the biggest similarity.
Tampa Electric has used apprenticeships since 1978 to make sure its workforce is the best in the business – trained, prepared, and productive. Apprenticeships improve its bottom line and give the company a competitive advantage.
My oldest son always wants to race. He’s kind of like me and it now has carried over to the other two. They’re all pretty competitive now. We do stuff in the pool. They’re like fish in water. They go all over the place. They’re kids. They like to play, have fun and compete with everything they do.
I’m a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I’m eventually better than everyone else, then so be it. But I don’t go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It’s also, I think, the key to my success.
The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.
ITC works to help firms in poor countries become more competitive and overcome the barriers that are keeping their goods and services out of international markets.
Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.
I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
Our party feels that we need to have fair compensation, living wage, good benefits, and decent treatment of workers, and that we can do that and still be competitive on a global basis.
I actually don’t invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don’t have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare.
I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I’ve got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn’t ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I’m one of the least competitive people you’ll ever meet. Except with myself.
Brothers, inherently, are competitive, and twins take it to the next level.
I think as a 20-year-old you expect life to always be easy. You get given a good hand and the chance to race in Formula One. You think the driver can make the difference, can make up for everything else within the team. But that is not the case. You are racing in such a competitive sport so that doesn’t happen.
I invite you to leverage Serbia because we have talented young professionals who are multilingual, highly educated, and willing to work for competitive wages.
I’m competitive – that’s what defines me – and I love it.
Sport is a great thing to get involved with, it’s not just fitness but it also gets your competitive side out.
You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn’t exciting, compelling, and competitive, it’s not going to generate a lot of interest.
I’m so highly competitive: I just want to win.
I’m fairly competitive.
I won’t have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can’t see being competitive in sports any more.
People think because it’s photography it’s not worth as much, and because it’s a woman artist, you’re still not getting as much – there’s still definitely that happening. I’m still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that’s really unfair.
America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society – in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.
I wouldn’t wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
Looking ahead, we see the popularity of eSports exploding as competitive gaming becomes more mainstream and eSports leagues like ‘Call of Duty‘ World League and Overwatch League driving greater engagement and viewership.
The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive.
I’m very competitive, but I know when not to be competitive. I know how to have fun, but I know when it’s time to get serious. That makes things a lot easier.
We need to invest in our crumbling infrastructure to create jobs and remain economically competitive.
To me, life is so exciting. To me, life is always trying to beat someone in something competitive. It’s kinda been my whole life.
Chinese… companies do not have to think about whether they do something to enhance their competitive edge in international markets.
By increasing productivity and becoming more competitive, we will be able to offer better opportunities and improve the standard of living for all Mexicans.
I mean, I’m very, very competitive.
I am a competitive person. But more good TV is more good TV.
I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I’m a tomboy at heart, too.
In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.
Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.
Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will increasingly define their ability to reach customers that only allow what is meaningful in their lives to pass through their filter.
And when your phone rings, pick it up. Open yourself up to the possibility a phone call offers. Discover this remarkable device called the telephone. It will give you a serious competitive advantage.
The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.
Women play just as hard as guys do. We’re just as competitive.
For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.
Your competitive juice, your love of the game, it’s in you. It’s hard to get out.
I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive… I have fourteen classmates.
Art is competitive.
I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.
I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that’s a lie!
I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity – all the things you want. It’s a pretty good metaphor for life.
At times, maybe I’m too competitive for my own good.
Our long-standing philosophy that our diverse suppliers must provide high-quality goods and services at competitive prices adds great value to our business.
Maybe it’s oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.
Furthermore, I don’t believe you have to be quite that competitive to compete effectively. Beyond a certain point, all that bearing down is self-defeating.
I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we’re going to grow together, that we’re going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, we’re not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy.
I’m oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.
I’m confident that no matter what game comes out, I’ll be able to play at a top competitive level.
I’m very driven by what I do. I am certainly very competitive. I like people who represent the best at what they do, and if that turns you into a perfectionist, then maybe I am.
I’m a competitive guy.
It’s always been there, that competitive instinct… I just want to win.
My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I’m bringing something totally different to ‘The Biggest Loser’ that wasn’t there before.
I am a kind of competitive person. I am competitive with myself. I won’t let anything go until I am satisfied with how it is.
At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn’t enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It’s not competitive with men. It’s a complementary contribution.
One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don’t ride. I observe, and I worry.
The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
I’m very competitive. I remember being 4 years old trying to out-chug my dad in a milk-chugging contest. It’s been in my blood.
I’m a fighter. I’m very competitive.
In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn’t happen.
In Uruguay, we are competitive; that’s part of our character.
I am a deeply competitive person when it comes to music.
Men’s competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it’s full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say ‘uncle‘ and let it go and avoid a hit.
I’m competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.
To me, figure skating is an art form, and that’s what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.
The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.
I know things like a 20% corporate tax rate will allow us to be more competitive in the global marketplace. That’s what our competitors enjoy today around the world. And when we’re more competitive, we win in the marketplace, and that allows us to invest and grow for the future.
What’s more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.
I’m a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I’d take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We’d spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year‘s show.
I’m extremely competitive, extremely ambitious, and always looking for ways to improve and move up, to do things better.
Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation.
Honestly, I wish I’d known just how hard it is and how competitive the acting world is. I took my time; I went at my own pace. That’s been helpful over the years, but also, I didn’t quite realize how incredible everyone else was going to be: the level of competition and everyone’s skill.
I take comedy very seriously, and I feel very competitive.
With liberalisation, Indian industry gained international exposure because of which it became imperative for companies to rework their strategies to become globally competitive.
Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.
I am unbelievably competitive and whatever the challenge is, I will go for it. I will give everything 110 per cent.
You can’t sell thermal power without the competitive bidding.
We all have competitive relationships with our siblings.
I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.
Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the steps we have taken, which extend the tenure of our exclusive access to Televisa’s premium Spanish-language telenovelas, sports, sitcoms, reality series, news programs and feature films, put Univision in a stronger competitive position.
The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
The dynamic has really changed in the U.S. Americans believe they can be competitive, that they can win medals.
Get rid of the preferences and the special deductions and the loopholes… and invest in getting the tax rate to a competitive level so we stop seeing companies move off shore.
I have a healthy competitive nature.
I’m a very competitive person.
The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, ‘Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.’
Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.
I watched the ‘Food, Inc.’ documentary and was like, ‘This has opened my eyes to the meat industry – maybe I should go vegetarian.’ And my friend told me, ‘Sadie, you’re not gonna last a week.’ But I’m very competitive.
I’d grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.
I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I’ll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you’ll have a competitive team.
I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after.
I’m a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I’m not competitive is when I’m playing against my mom.
If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
I may play some exhibition games so I don’t want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it’s a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are motivated to pay low wages, intensify exploitative conditions, keep workers fearful with insecure work contracts, or simply sack workers who have formed a union to fight back.
Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.
I look forward to the day when China has a truly market-determined solution… To get there, you need to have a currency that is market-determined, an open capital market, and you are going to need a competitive, open financial system.
There has to be a drive to make the U.K. competitive in the motorcar industry or in the engineering industry. To do that, you have to give attention to the manufacturing sector.
The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It’s adjacent to growth. But it’s not about growth.
In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are – as a matter of fact, often they are more so!
Being a competitive dancer is an expensive business – you have to buy the £2,000 or so tail suit and the shoes, and then get yourself around the world to the competitions. And there is not a lot of money to be made in competing.
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth.
My husband and I own a CrossFit Gym. Crossfit is perfect for me because it’s always competitive, all the workouts are in a class environment, and it’s different every day. It’s a constantly varied functional fitness workout done with intensity.
I’m a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I’m very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I’m easy-going.
I run all the brands like cousins. You want your cousins to do well, but you want to do better. All of our brands want to win, but we certainly want to fight fair and coordinate as much as we can behind the scenes. But to the consumer, we want to offer the broadest, most competitive set of products that we can.
I’ve always liked game shows – the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.
America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world’s top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive.
I grew up a competitive swimmer. I wanted to go the Olympics. Both my parents were professional swimmers. I competed internationally quite often, right up until I moved to California to pursue music.
I’m really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops.
If you’re going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you’re going to have to be competitive in this world. And you can’t be competitive if you don’t have a good education.
We have a very competitive and profitable investment bank and strong asset management capabilities. We want to continue to build on all those businesses organically.
Every time I’m ever in L.A., if I have anytime off – which is rare – I’ll go straight to the basketball court and play. That’s a way for me to escape and get my mind off everything. I’m so competitive, so if I’m playing basketball, all I’m thinking about is winning.
Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.
And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.
People across the nation know Montana as ‘Big Sky Country’ or the ‘Last Best Place’ thanks to our stunning landscapes, blue-ribbon trout streams, and welcoming communities. Fewer people recognize that Montana has one of the most competitive business climates to go along with our exceptional quality of life.
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.
I’m a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.
I do consider myself a competitive person, but I’m not competitive to the point where I will do anything to win. I wouldn’t step on somebody just to get to the next level. I would have to do it fair and square. I’m kind of competitive in a way to where I like to figure out things myself, and if I need help, I’ll ask.
Adaptability and constant innovation is key to the survival of any company operating in a competitive market.
I am fortunate that I have two older brothers, and they have definitely helped me with being competitive just to keep up with them. We were always encouraged to try what we wanted to do. As long as we tried our hardest and did the best we could, it didn’t matter what we did.
Benchmark has threatened to block investments that could bolster Uber’s competitive position in global markets by bargaining over board seats and its own control.
As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don’t control anything but what you do.
In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.
Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.
You still remember the bad rounds here, but they don’t stay with you as long. The Champions Tour is great, it’s competitive and it’s a wonderful show, but it’s not the real big league. The real big league is the PGA Tour, and we all know that.
Uruguayans are competitive, and we always want to win. Even though we try to hide it, it is impossible.
I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they’re competing on. If we’re competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it’s likely that both of us will become better, but it’s also quite possible we’ll lose sight of what’s truly valuable.
I’m not a competitive person.
I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there’s that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I’m competitive in all aspects.
As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.
I don’t feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.
The source of all the energy is the sun. The big challenge is, how do you use all of that energy? Solar power has to fascinate you. There have been strides to get the costs down, and if this will work, you have to get costs down so it is competitive with fossil fuels.
There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I’ve told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn’t out-do my brothers in sports, and it’s a very competitive relationship.
I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.
I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
You have to have a globally competitive mining dispensation.
I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.
I love what I do. I don’t do it for the money. I work on behalf of investors that I like and want to do well for. I’m a competitive person.
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
It’s a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.
As most who have engaged in competitive sports know, there’s nothing to match the amplitude of emotion brought by losing.
At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.
I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school. I did all genres, and later on a did a lot of extra ballet on top of that. I actually got accepted to Julliard for dance during my senior year, but I ultimately turned it down to come to L.A. to act.
We as individuals have good and bad days, but we are all passionate, career driven, and competitive. As a collective, the whole locker room has excellent heads on our shoulders, and you have to remember it is a sisterhood.
For a girl to be an actress, she must be like a man, competitive, hard, un-feminine.
There is an adage in business that says that you should only compete when you have a competitive advantage. When it comes to cybersecurity, Maryland has a whole host of competitive advantages.
I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch ’em come and you watch ’em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they’re not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.
I’m quite competitive. Not with other models but with myself. I have to win.
People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
We know that if we’re going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we’re going to have to get more people educated to higher levels.
The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.
The people of the United States don’t recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.
Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.
I love what I do. I’m appreciative and I’m still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn’t consume me. If I can’t do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It’s not the end of the world. It’s just the end of your career.
I wouldn’t say I’m the best player. On the competitive level, I am the best competitor. I don’t think there’s anybody like me. I play my heart out on both ends of the floor, and I give my all.
One of the reasons I’m so competitive – I mean, I’m not winning much anymore – at my age was because I always worked hard and because we have a level playing field. We don’t have motorbikes in the peloton anymore.
I wouldn’t date an actress. There’s only room for one actor in my life and I’m it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it’s very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn’t.
In today’s competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
This is a highly competitive sport, and we are all very passionate when we are on the track.
From a young age, I was viciously competitive.
In my own experience, I’ve found that it’s very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
My training and ballet background definitely gives me the competitive edge on the ice.
The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes up with a new way to remember more stuff more quickly, and then the rest of the field has to play catch-up.
A lot of men are competitive about being funny.
I think in any industry, it is competitive. There are a certain number of slots out there and opportunities out there. So you need to make sure that you’re always on the top of your toes, trying to get better.
America’s competitive advantage lies in its human talent. All of us should be doing everything we can to cultivate and develop our work force.
Monopolies are bad because people get bad service for high prices. Competition is good because people get good service for competitive prices.
We need foreign skills to stay competitive.
I was driven when I was younger. Driven at West Point where it was much more competitive in that women were competing with men on many levels, and I was driven in the military and at Harvard, both competitive environments.
When I’m very motivated, and when I have to compete, I change a little bit; I become very competitive.
We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.
Investing in rail is an easy way to reduce congestion, cost, and energy consumption and make our producers more competitive.
Leaving the European Union really does give us a chance as a country to become more outward-looking, to become more competitive, and to deepen our links with our partners right across the world.
As an athlete, confidence makes me more competitive and helps me perform better.
In many competitive worlds like luxury, things are done behind closed doors and with secrecy, so one day I had a eureka moment: for one weekend we show everything, full transparency, forget about business or commerce and showcase our work.
I’ll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career politicians. I’m not going to take a penny of special interest money.
Amongst high unemployment rates, a competitive job market and a shrinking global economy, the emerging social media industry only continues to grow.
Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don’t play by the rules.
Theater is such a collaborative art. Hollywood is a competitive sport.
I’m not into being competitive. I never saw myself as a competitive type of person.
All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies.
I prefer the competitive atmosphere of a classroom setting, like yoga or Pilates. That keeps me going. Although performing on stage is great exercise!
Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
With cycling, I can still be active and compete, and ultimately, that’s what I love to do, to be competitive.
Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.
I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I had aspirations to be the best in the world.
