In this post, you will find great Compete Quotes from famous people, such as Amanda Seales, Vijender Singh, David Rudisha, Oscar Robertson, Prince Royce. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
‘Smart Funny and Black’ is basically a live black pop culture game show that I created. We have a live band. We have two contestants that we call ‘blacksperts.’ They come on stage and compete in games that I’ve created that test their knowledge of black culture, black history, and the black experience.
We live in a funny time. If you don’t go corporate, you can’t compete. You’re relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.
SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.
Sometimes I get intimidated by people, intellectuals, because I don’t have a great education. The only thing I feel helps me compete with all these people, people with degrees from Harvard, that you’re thrown in with and have to work with, is that I’m grounded.
I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn’t have that career, so I don’t have to compete on that level.
For food service industry and retail, I’m for the minimum wage being increased to at least $12. Not for manufacturing. Software and robotics are going to revolutionize manufacturing in the next 10 years. In the meantime, we have to compete with overseas manufacturing.
Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.
When you can’t compete on cost, compete on quality.
See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don’t make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.
You need to get female talent which is good enough to compete at the right level because no team is going to compromise on on-track performance just to tick a gender box.
I wish, to be honest with you, for African American films that we could get a few more theaters. They only open them in 1500 to 2000 for an opening weekend, and how do you expect us to compete. How can we go to certain box office levels if they don’t give us more theaters?
We are going to make people who do some things with Santander into loyal customers who bank with us every day. This is what will allow us to compete in a world where banking customers have more and more choice. If we don’t do this, then we won’t grow in the next decade.
I don’t think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don’t have monopolies out there, so that people don’t have a chance to compete fairly.
Kids should be encouraged to compete.
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 wrestled as a 90-pounder, and I wrestled in the 107-pound class in my first year. I had something inside of me. I could not stand not to compete. And I don’t know why… I don’t know what that’s all about. But that’s deep inside of Doug Harvey.
All I can do is turn up and compete.
I love unsalted almonds, especially if I’m about to do a photo shoot or compete. There’s no mess, and they’re so easy to pack in a little Ziploc bag to take with you. It’s my number one go-to snack!
Of course I’m naughty. I’ve always had to compete for attention, you see.
As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.
I cannot compete with anyone.
If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.
I believe in my ability and my mental toughness. I know I can pick up a playbook, like anybody can, and I can compete with anybody.
I’m not into any show that makes people compete when they lose weight.
I like to compete in everything I do.
I think newspapers shouldn’t try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.
At the end of the day, customer choice is essential. And we don’t make products that compete with Apple, nor make products that compete with Google. Our customers come in both iOS and Android flavors, and I hope our customers can still buy the products they want to purchase wherever they want to purchase them.
I believe you can be young and compete in gymnastics if you have a coach who is looking out for you and if there is a good gym environment where the coaches are taking care of you emotionally and physically.
I was a rugby player, I was a hockey player. You know, I just love to challenge myself, and I love to compete.
When one doesn’t want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren’t competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it’s difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed; that pervades everything.
By ‘flat‘ I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That’s why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.
We don’t compete with the Grammys. The Grammys compete with us. They have taken the stance that anybody who performs on ‘The American Music Awards‘ cannot appear on ‘The Grammys.’ I don’t agree with that philosophy.
There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a ‘people’s’ Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.
After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.
The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.
Football is definitely present in the tennis world. Given the mix of nationalities that exists in the changing rooms, there’s inevitably a bit of a rivalry between the players, especially in terms of the UEFA Champions League or competitions in which national teams compete.
We do a lot of great things, but it’s a competitive league. A lot of great guys around us do the work and help us elevate our game, and that’s what makes the NFL so special. We have a lot of competitive players who are the best in the world at what they do, and they all compete against each other.
There’s this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of ‘is a good idea‘ and ‘looks like a bad idea.’ So you want most people to think it’s a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.
It’s my whole life, brother. It’s a world title. It has been something I’ve worked for and quested for, and now I have the opportunity to compete for one.
Yahoo is still in many ways the definitive brand of the consumer Internet, but I don’t think they can or should compete with Google any longer. That game is over.
We need more of our players to follow the trend and move to Europe, which is the biggest stage in world football, but we’re not doing that, and that makes it difficult for us to compete with other countries.
I’ve carried my chip with me my entire career. I’ve had to fight and claw for every position I’ve had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.
One thing I’ve done in my life is train year-round to compete at anything, anything. I’ve got an invitation now to maybe be on the karate team for the Barcelona Olympics. I’m debating whether I want to do that. I just love to compete, and I want to win.
We must consider bringing forward legislation that will facilitate the creation and implementation of businesses in Haiti. Overall, we must better position the country to compete for new market opportunities.
The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.
American workers and American entrepreneurs can compete with anybody, anywhere if our government will stop making America a cost-prohibitive place to do business.
I’m going to compete every possession.
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.
What’s great about ‘Spy Hunter‘ is that we have an amazing title, an awesome car, and a great theme song, and we can use that to launch a new franchise that hopefully will compete with the other ones but just be kind of the more fun, video game version of a spy movie.
I don’t remember that I ever really went all out to come up with a costume or a persona that could compete with everyone around me. I didn’t know what to do. I found Halloween scary for just that fact – it meant that I had pressure to get up and be scary, makeup and all that. That was pretty horrifying for me.
I support a robust economy where agriculture and businesses are able to compete in a fair and open global market.
Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain‘s to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services.
We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.
You have to stay current to compete.
Taking care of my skin so that it’s healthy and glowing, especially with all the travelling and training, is important and makes me feel presentable. I don’t wear makeup when I compete, and that’s when I’m photographed the most, so I have to make sure it looks good!
I have aspirations to try and compete professionally. Any golfer that competes in tournaments would be lying if they said they didn’t.
It’s important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they’ll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.
At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.
We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way to triumph in the boxing world. Our people compete and win every day in every imaginable job throughout the world.
If the Olympics come around, and I’m in shape, then I’ll compete. But I won’t be representing the United States; I’ll be representing myself.
If we have an agreement with a country like Mexico, that doesn’t support or protect the rights of workers, that doesn’t have the same environmental regulations, how can Canadians ever compete with that jurisdiction?
I respect women but do not necessarily believe that women need to compete with men.
A lot of guys kind of get complacent with how they do in one game, but I just want to compete. So every game I play in, it’s a brand new beginning for me.
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction – not to mention in other media like TV, opera, theatre, and even in video games! I relish when dark and compelling characters compete for our protagonist‘s heart. The doubts, the uncertainty – the jealousy! – can be breathtaking.
People have different ideas on how to increase female racing driver participation. My belief is that men and women should compete together.
Music is a beauty pageant. When I go put myself out there, I’m going to compete.
America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.
You continue to compete against the very best every day, and you will get better, or you’ll be embarrassed.
It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
When I was growing up, there were times I had to compete against boys in tae kwon do, and I’d show them right away that I wasn’t someone to mess with.
This game is very humbling and you have to take it one pitch at a time, one day at a time and compete.
In business, what do we do? We compete.
The human world lives in a framework called global economics. We live in a system based on GDP, which drives consumption. it causes people to compete with each other through trade in a way that they all grow.
Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.
I find the strongest predictor of people who do well at Shopify is whether they see opportunity as something to compete for, or do they see opportunity as essentially everywhere and unlimited? It’s a rough proxy for pessimism and optimism.
I was very clear why we put these companies together and what our goals were. It was really to allow both Sears and Kmart to compete in what I thought was going to be a more challenging but evolving industry.
I’m here to compete. I’m here to be number one.
I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, ‘How I can I compete with that?’ Being a regular black girl wasn’t good enough.
We’re the only dance in town. We don’t compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.
You go into every game knowing that somebody wants to compete with you and take your place. There is no easy option and you always have to prove yourself.
On the pitch, I will always be like that. That’s my character, and I will always compete and compete – always. I’m a different guy off the pitch, as you can see, but on the pitch, I will not change.
Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
Moving forward, I will be committed to building a stronger team so that the GOP can compete and win statewide in 2018, including the possibility of being a candidate in that cycle.
The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don’t want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
The majors are very important, and I would love to win one or many. I’ll continue to compete in them hard and win if I can. There’s not much more I can say. I’d love to be part of the club of people who’ve won majors.
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.
The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of ‘Oppression Olympics.’ Gold medal goes to the most offended.
When I’m very motivated, and when I have to compete, I change a little bit; I become very competitive.
With more than 67 percent of the Nation’s freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.
Every single time you compete, I don’t care what it is, you want to perform the best you can, and I feel like I’m doing that.
There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
It’s always been my dream to compete.
It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.
Lara Croft is completely different; the way she does the action scenes and maintains her body in perfect condition… I can’t compete with her in any way.
I had been dancing in competitions in South Africa since the age of four, before going on to compete internationally.
For Maersk Line, it is never great to compete with somebody who, by definition, can’t go bankrupt.
Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
When I’m on the court, I just compete.
I don’t think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I will continue to play, and that’s the way I’m succeeding in my life. If I hit you by mistake, all I can say is ‘I’m sorry,’ and I keep moving on.
We are not going to compete for programs where we do not believe we can get a fair and sufficient return.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
I say no to a lot of things that just don’t fit my life. I involve my kids in what I’m struggling with so they don’t compete with it.
I like to compete.
Prior to my father’s death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that’s not because of who he was – it was because of who I am. It’s true, though, that I felt I shouldn’t compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.
I didn’t have the kind of budget to compete with the big studios, therefore I had to make my films more outlandish, more outrageous.
I always feel that I compete with myself.
My favorite part about playing basketball is a chance to play with other people, be in that team atmosphere and have a chance to compete and win every day.
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after ‘Lord of the Rings.’ I’d be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently.
Competition gives birth to a lot of success, and if no one ever challenged you, you wouldn’t go anywhere. It makes sense to compete with others for a promotion at work. But so many women take it a step further and won’t even support other women. They end up competing over things that don’t make sense – like how we look.
I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
I’ll say it this way: AMD is a company that generates very strong opinions. There are some people who really like us and are really rooting for us. And then there are some people who say we’ll never be able to compete against some of our bigger competitors.
Anywhere you go, you’re gonna have to compete. In life, you’re gonna go get a job. You’re gonna have to compete with the next person.
Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n’ roll song. There ain’t no DJ that’s gonna play something that can take ‘Mr Brightside’ or ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger.’
When it is fair, American workers can compete and win. I cannot support the TPP in its current form because it doesn’t provide that level playing field.
For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.
Enterprises of different ownerships should all enjoy fair opportunities and conditions to compete in the market.
Most guys in my position don’t get drafted to such a high-caliber team like the Celtics, so it makes me work harder because I have to compete and earn everything.
We are constantly under lots of pressure, so I take lots of time to recover and do all the things I need for my body to be in the perfect state to compete the next day.
Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that does not appoint the executive, independent judiciaries and a complex set of relationships between the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the Parliament.
For Ozil’s part, he certainly has the class to compete with Ronaldo.
I don’t compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.
The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.
Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.
The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.
If you have a negative model, you do negative things. If you have a positive model, like Guardiola, who says positive things and tells you to compete on the pitch and to play football, it’s much better.
I want the kids in the Philippines to compete with the world, with other kids out there, to have the opportunity. You never know, you might find the next Black Eyed Peas out there.
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.
Technology is giving companies superpowers to compete more intelligently and capture the data behind changing trends, expanding markets, and new opportunities.
When you go into a ‘WWE‘ ring, you know you’re going to compete. You know that things are going to hurt. It is a dangerous, dangerous place. No matter what people think or say, it’s a very, very dangerous thing.
Big Brother makes a game where it’s competitive, not just a handicap match. Mentally, physically, strategically, emotionally, it’s an even match. When you compete 100%, it’s a real competition.
It’s a mistake to believe technology rests outside India. We compete very successfully.
Although I have never won a major trophy, I consider myself a winner because I helped Fiorentina to compete with the big boys.
I can 100 percent compete at the top level in every game that I play.
It’s clear that I want to compete with the best players.
One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
People might talk more about Real Madrid and Barcelona than about Atletico, but what matters to me is what happens on the pitch. We compete with them year after year. I am not interested about the club’s reputation.
Our mission is to inspire audiences to play, connect, and compete by making the most engaging entertainment in the world, and our talent evaluation process ensures that each new hire shares that commitment.
Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.
There’s competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don’t compete with anyone.
I want the kind of feminism that allows me to have a voice and to compete on equal terms with men yet still, potentially, to have one of them hurl me over their shoulder and carry me off somewhere, because I still find proper, old-fashioned masculinity deeply attractive.
We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that’s been Connecticut‘s strength, and it can be again.
It’s so awesome to see a lot of the young talent really grow and compete every single day.
All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let’s just bring competition to public education.
I’m not a competitive player at all, but I don’t want competitive games to go away, because for some people that’s why they play games, to compete.
‘Bunk‘ is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a series of bizarre and meaningless challenges all for my entertainment. Ethan T. Berlin and Eric Bryant created ‘Bunk.’
I’m a competitor; I love to compete.
Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.
Confident people tend to challenge themselves and compete, even when their efforts yield small victories. Small victories build new androgen receptors in the areas of the brain responsible for reward and motivation.
I would like to see both parties aggressively compete for the women’s vote and talk about what they will do to unleash the economic power of women, to protect women’s health, to provide the right policies that provide for real family stability and real family values.
I love to compete against the best.
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.
You have to go out and find a way to compete every day. I know what I can do and what I can offer the team.
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub.
When you play for Liverpool and England, you have good players around you, and you want to compete with the best.
For me, when you put a MakerBot in a school, you add a manufacturing education to the environment where I think we can really empower the next generation to compete in the global economy.
The true value of having Florida Virtual School in this mix is that it creates a gold standard for all providers to meet if they hope to compete for Florida students. This program raises the bar for everybody, even the traditional public schools. And that benefits all our children.
It’s an honour to sign for Manchester United. I am looking forward to following in the footsteps of so many great strikers, bringing my experience and playing my part to help the team compete for the biggest trophies in the game.
Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let’s talk about the patient. The patient doesn’t need a war.
Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts in a scheme that reached the highest levels of the company.
I’m a competitor. I’m going to compete each and every day to get better.
At the end of the day that’s why I play the game, to glorify Him in everything I do and to compete for Him.
Generally, we have competed with ourselves… because I feel that if I compete against somebody, it causes stress. I don’t want the process of growth to be stressful.
You know, when you’re trying to get better at golf, you’re always measuring your game up against other people to see what you’ve got to do to get better and to see if you can compete with them.
India’s states must compete, not march in lockstep, if India is to develop its own path to sustainable prosperity.
Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?
Every night, I go out there, and I try to compete and win.
As athletes, our job is to train and compete.
A club like Arsenal, it’s normal that expectations are high. This club must compete for titles, and that’s what we want to do.
There’s no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I’ve always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.
Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind’s eye. That’s an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.
For me, what it means to be competitive is to work hard but compete in this type of game when you need to play, you need to suffer, you need to fight.
If you need a tax credit to compete, you are probably not that competitive.
I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.
I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it’s brought me incredible good luck.
As long as you train and love to compete, you can do whatever you want.
The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.
I compete with myself. I try to get more done than you. I don’t know why.
It’s widely assumed that you can’t compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.
At Barcelona, there is always talk of signings, but I want to compete with the best.
In a free market, businesses compete for customers by keeping prices down and for labor by keeping wages up.
If you’re in a situation where your effective tax rate is so much lower than any other company, then obviously you have a much better position when it comes to compete on prices and everything else.
I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
I’m fit, but I need to get even more fit to compete with these guys every week.
Nerves can happen to even the best of us. It’s not easy to compete.
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.
I don’t chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.
You’ve really got to, first of all, love the game, you got to love the competition, you got to love to compete.
It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on ‘Top Chef.’
I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.
You have to raise your game, you have to be ready to compete, and you’ve just got to give Hakeem credit. He was great. He really was great.
I’m actually sort of shocked that I was able to get a medal in 2014 and really have any of the success I had before because as soon as I came out, it was like a whole new world for me, and I felt so free, so confident, that it’s actually shocking that I was able to compete any other way.
But I am a basketball player going out there to compete, I am going to try to win no matter what. That is just in my blood.
A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event.
It’s very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.
I think one of the big things with Jonathan and me is that, you know, we love to compete, but it’s not a matter of competition to knock each other down. It’s a matter of pushing each other to do better. And we’ve always been like that our whole life.
We’ve been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It’s a way of life. It’s about greed.
I didn’t enjoy fighting. All I cared about was trying to beat the scale. Once that got to a point where I couldn’t compete with the scale anymore, I was like, ‘I’m done.’
Every job is important because each one represents an American’s livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
John Davidson is one of the premier executives in the National Hockey League. As we continue to build a team that can consistently compete for the Stanley Cup, John’s knowledge of the game and his experience and passion for the Rangers logo make him the ideal choice to oversee our Hockey Operations department.
Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.
For me, the Premier League is full of quality, and the clubs competing at the top are the same who compete at the top of Europe every year.
Learning how to compete is one of the most important things that an athlete can do. You can train as well as you possibly can and go compete and completely choke.
Apple and Samsung are selling in such high volumes, and they’re vertically integrated more and more, that it’s very, very hard for anyone to compete against Apple and Samsung in the high-volume part of the smartphone or tablet market.
I just want to go out and compete. Plus the main thing is, at 55 I need a good amount of time to prepare just to make the weight cut. At 70 I can just take fights as they come and just compete as much as I want.
I want to play for Chelsea. I hope I do get that chance, and I think I can compete.
The biggest problem in Italy is work. And out-of-control immigration damages the labor market because Italians can’t compete with illegal workers who are being exploited. So to restore dignity to work, we must control immigration.
I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the pressure and was able to win the gold medal. I try not to feel the pressure, and I try not to be nervous when I am on the ice and when I compete.
My confidence came from always needing to compete.
If all goes well and my body reacts well, and I feel I have a good high level to compete amongst the best then I’ll come back and play.
Being able to compete and try and win games is the coolest feeling.
In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best – I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.
It’s such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It’s hard for fiction to compete with that.
An all-women championship is giving up on the mission of eventually making girls compete on a high level and against the boys in Formula One. It is undermining what girls are able to achieve.
We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and educated workforce, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Americans with bachelor‘s degrees have half the unemployment rate of those with a high school degree.
As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, I understand the importance access to high quality education plays in preparing our children to learn and compete in a competitive, global workforce.
I was very lucky in that my parents supported my racing so much – they just said ‘whatever you want to achieve, if you work hard enough you can achieve it.’ They never, ever let me believe that, as a female, I couldn’t compete in a man’s world.
To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don’t do that by being manipulated.
When you’re off the court, that’s when it’s time to talk or whatever you want to do. But once it goes up, it’s time to compete.
I can say that I don’t compete with others and only with myself because I do so many films.
I keep myself flexible; I just compete at my normal body weight.
To be able to compete in a Champions League final, to win it with Real Madrid and to score was incredible and exciting.
America is competitive. We compete with each other every day.
We can only compete in the world against competitors from Asia, the United States, or wherever if we look at unmet needs.
You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
Television offers a range and scope, and a degree of creativity and daring, that the bottom-line, global-audience-obsessed, brand-driven movie industry just can’t compete with.
I have people say, ‘I’ll come to work for you for free,’ and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.
Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market.
Ultimately, I didn’t look at ‘The Biggest Loser‘ as being my defining moment. I wasn’t there to compete and win the money. I wasn’t there to win ‘The Biggest Loser.’ I was there for my health.
Conservatives by and large believe in the corrective power of the free market above all. If we don’t like how private companies are doing business, we should just start our own to compete, right?
The key about playing internationally is the confidence that you gain. Not only do you train with some of the best players in the NBA, but you compete against some of the best players in the world.
Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.
I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
As long as I am able to compete physically with the younger players, I am going to play.
Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees.
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
You want to play against the best – at least I do. I want to go out there and compete against the best players.
When I look back over my career, having an opportunity to compete against really good players like Lester Hayes are some of the highlights.
Our economic future and our energy future are one in the same, and it’s a future America can’t shrink from. We must shape it, just as we’ve always done. We have to protect our planet from the threat of climate change and ensure that workers have the skills to compete for good middle-class jobs.
Most people should be given a chance to compete in the Olympic Games.
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area‘s workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today’s global economy.
Whatever I learned reading ‘Scientific American,’ nothing can finally compete with your own observations.
You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared. You go through the emotional roller coaster at what it’s like to compete at the Olympic level and you let that run through your whole body.
In competition, you see people who win and lose, and you have to learn how to lose gracefully. You have to be able to come back in the day and compete again, not hold a grudge, and put everything into the next fight.
‘Clothespin’ was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
I think someone should explain to the child that it’s OK to make mistakes. That’s how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
There are a lot of champions out there, a lot of great guys, but I think that the way I compete and my fighting style makes me perfect for Reebok.
Obviously, different people identify me as the face of women’s hockey and whatnot, but like my teammates, I’m just there to perform and compete.
People always said during the Monday Night Wars that the only way we were able to compete was due to a large checkbook and deep pockets. That’s not very true at all. That is a false narrative designed to shape history. WWE had significant advantages over WCW and vice versa.
At the beginning, there was this competitive vibe, like, ‘Oh, we’ve got to compete for this audience.’ But then, over the next few years afterwards, everyone on YouTube realized the more we work together, the more we collaborate, it just benefits everyone. It just became a really friendly community.
Having the opportunity to go to the U.S. Olympics was great because I was the first Latina in over 30 years to compete in gymnastics at the Olympics.
If I can go compete with the young guys during training in the offseason, I should be fine during football.
Free Trade puts consumers at the centre of economic activity. It lowers the cost of imports, which gives people the opportunity to buy more with the same amount of money: domestic producers have to compete with the lowest global costs or invest in new business.
I got everything I wanted out of Texas. Obviously, you’d love to win more. You’d love to win a national championship and compete at that level. But as far as relationships and development, I couldn’t be happier.
I believe our basic information, our ‘software‘, should be free and open for everyone to play with, to compete with, to try and make products from. I do not believe it should be under the control of one person.
I’d love to compete in the Summer Olympics.
The Democrats complain; I choose to compete.
There are things – I want to compete in a big tournament, like an eight-man tournament, like the old fighters. You’re going to compete; you’re going to fight this one and this one.
Until the Chinese decide to compete fairly it will be up to us to do what we can to further protect our manufacturing base, and ensure we keep the good paying jobs we already have.
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
The player can only compete with the best internationally when they’ve committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point.
Some of the perceptions from my professors were that I was less than or that I wouldn’t be able to compete or wouldn’t be able to meet the same bar as my peers. I don’t want that for my daughter or for any of the girls who come into our program.
I was well aware of my limitations as a football player and knew that I needed every edge I could possibly get in order to compete. A big part of that was to be as precise as I could and make as few mistakes as possible because I figured that was the only way I could survive.
As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.
There’s no doubt about it that my participation in sports allowed me to compete in the business world in a very gender-neutral way.
I don’t think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
What do we do to just rebuild and focus on creating a big and inclusive tent, where we’re focusing on making sure every child gets that fair shot, that every woman gets to compete on a level playing field, that we are true to the core values of our country, and we’re making sure that we honor those values?
I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.
As a player that has played this game, I know, at the end of the day I’ve had numerous amount of surgeries, and the doctors released me at numerous amount of times to go and play. But a lot of those times didn’t mean go and play against the best in the world right now, but to get yourself ready to compete again.
I think I can still go out there and compete, and compete at a high level.
I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.
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.
You wanted to compete against Michael Jordan, because they were the best. You wanted to beat them. Never once in my mind, I went, ‘I would love to play with him.’ I was always like, ‘Man, we’ve got to beat them.’
You just go out there and try to compete and try to make a play for your teammates.
I think that players play, and they compete, and it’s not about incentives.
Instead of expecting truck drivers and warehouse workers to rapidly retrain so they can compete with tireless, increasingly capable machines, let’s play to their human strengths and create opportunities for workers as companions and caregivers for our elders, our children, and our special-needs population.
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I’m the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I’ll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can’t make fuel out of it.
You can’t compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills.
If you are good enough to compete for a top-level corporate job, you should be smart enough to know what the job pays the other gender and negotiate accordingly. If you are an employer, and you don’t pay an employee market wages, regardless of gender or orientation, you will end up with what you deserve.
I don’t just have the patriarchy to compete with. I have systemic racism and white supremacy and inequality to compete with.
One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the ‘Nutcracker’ or ‘A Christmas Carol.’
I’ve been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don’t compete with them.
I love trade. I love trade. First, it’s economic freedom. It’s the freedom to buy, sell, and compete with as little government interference as possible. Secondly, it’s a jobs issue.
Any time you can go out and compete is better than getting on a practice court.
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men – bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
We can’t compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
I think it’s in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.
Fashion is a tool… to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.
Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone – even my older brother.
I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you’re an artist.
It was natural for me to go to local tournaments with my mother and watch my brothers compete and sometimes be left with my mom at home while my dad would take my brothers away to different tournaments and competitions. So I started doing everything they did.
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.
You shouldn’t have an overbearing FCC. Let the market work itself. By allowing companies to compete in an unregulated forum, you’re going to allow the faster deployment of new services and new equipment consumers are going to want.
The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.
Every Olympics, when I was growing up and playing basketball, my parents and I made it a point to sit down and watch the U.S.A. compete. To join that team later, and play and practice one-on-one with David Robinson, Larry Bird, Chris Mullens and all these guys I looked up to, was a dream come true.
There will always be a place for social movie-going. Nothing can compete with that.
We were an entertainment brand, and if we were going to compete in an era of incredible growth in the cable industry, I felt we actually needed to be entertaining.
A lack of reform – particularly in international tax – has hurt our ability to compete in a global economy by keeping U.S. corporate cash overseas and reducing domestic investment, slowing economic growth.
If we had a flat tax code rather than a 70,000-page document full of cronyism and favors, bureaucrats and elected officials wouldn’t have the power to do you any favors. That’s what we need. You would have to compete on your own on a level playing field, but that’s not what the government permits now.
I just want to compete and do what I love.
It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.
We’re only going to be able to compete in the world if we continue to be innovative.
I’m playing in the NFL and getting to compete with these guys every single day, getting to play in the pre-season games. That’s a dream come true right there.
I don’t just want to make the playoffs or get to the first or second round. When I compete or make it to the playoffs, I expect to win every time.
I don’t compete with actresses; I only compete with heroes.
You can be a lender who wants to compete and have a better product, but you just can’t get to the students. The schools are controlling the access to the students.
I’m putting in the time to make sure that my body is ready to compete at the top level.
Understanding how to compete better has really made a difference.
The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.
I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren’t more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.
Gone are the days when you could lie on a beach between races and still be in good enough shape to compete. Gone are the days when simply wearing a brand on your firesuit was enough to justify the marketing expense of an Indy Car. Racing an Indy Car is only about a quarter of my life as a racing driver.
I am very, very hungry to compete.
I honestly don’t understand how people don’t enjoy watching Ryan Hall compete. I genuinely love every minute of his fights. They are different and fun. I’m captivated the entire time.
No woman ever lived who could compete with a man on an equal basis – even a 55-year-old man. There’s a lot of talk about Women’s Lib. They feel they’re worth as much as the guys, but they can’t play a lick if they can’t beat a 55-year-old guy.
It’s difficult to compete against a player that’s also refereeing the game.
In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th. Legal wars waged by boxers in the 1960s and ’70s won women the right to compete professionally nationwide.
There’s this misconception that comedy and music go together. They don’t. Comedians can’t compete with rock stars; they’re just not on the same level. Rock stars will always be cooler. They will always get more girls.
Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.
I try to play like Kohli and compete with him.
I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It’s always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.
I’m here to compete and to keep beating people up.
If you choose a market that already exists, say, networking equipment, you have to compete with an established company like Cisco. Even if your product is marginally better, Cisco can fudge it and outsell you.
I have reached a level where I can compete with great players. I do not feel inferior to anybody.
YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?
And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.
As a massively multiplayer online RPG, ‘The Old Republic‘ has no single-player components; you cooperate with and compete against other people in a virtual, persistently online recreation of the ‘Star Wars‘ universe.
Get more competition into the New Hampshire marketplace, and then we’ll find that there will be insurers that will compete on convenience as compared to cost.
I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
It’s ridiculous that we let broadcast and cable shows compete against each other at the Emmys. They are not the same animal.
I have a black belt and used to compete when I was a kid! I did the Junior Olympics.
The only team that could have competed with us was the Cubans. It’s too bad they’re boycotting. The teams we’re playing just can’t compete with our power.
There have been competitions where I got on the line and psyched myself out before I even let myself compete. I was thinking about the other competitors and not giving myself a fair chance. I had to shift to thinking, ‘Just focus on yourself and doing what your coach has taught you to do.’
As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don’t contemplate their business models.
People in the music business say don’t make too many records because they’ll compete against one another.
For me, it’s more important to bring my level up and make sure that I can compete against guys in the top 100 and top 50 instead of maybe being 120 or 130 and not being able to compete with those guys.
I was never motivated by a contract. I was motivated by being the best. So I just compete against myself every day and push to get better.
France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete.
You have to be ready to compete. Because lots of people dream that dream, to be the best at something. But are you ready to commit to the hard work that it takes to get there? For me, it just became a part of my life, and it was what it was. Another day, another basketball practice or another game.
Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.
Once, every four years, you get an opportunity to compete in the Olympics. You have these six dives that decide whether you’re an Olympic medallist or not, which is quite intense.
British drama can compete with America creatively. But the two systems are very different.
When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you’ve found a niche don’t ever become complacent.
When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.
We’re a competitive family – we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we’re walking down the street, we want to be the first one down the block.
You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
It’s been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.
I think any company should compete on the quality of their products, their prices, the novelty they can produce, their services, because that would be fair competition.
There’s a broad range of male rappers, so if they’re going out on a limb and they sound different, it’s okay, because we have 20 other rappers doing what the radio wants… as far as females, there aren’t as many, so if you want to compete, you have to sound just like this, because that’s the only thing hot right now.
It’s not easy when you lose Flamini, Hleb, Senderos, Gilberto, and Lehmann. When you lose all these players – and Flamini, for me, was the best player last year – it’s really difficult to compete against Chelsea, Man United, or Liverpool.
Everybody doesn’t get to do each and every film. I don’t compete with others; I compete with myself. I have been an athlete, a sportsperson; so I know how to be competitive in a healthy way.
I’m letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don’t think anyone can compete with me.
When I’m on planes, I’d talk to people and I’d tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn’t. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They’re really like the X Games for the world!
It’s always fun to compete against the best.
You never really think about what happens after the Olympics – you’re just like, ‘I want to compete. I want to do well’ and thinking about that. After it all happened, it was such a whirlwind. I’ve gotten to do so many amazing things. My favorite thing was getting into acting.
Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative – that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.
My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.
A lot of these guys in ‘Fight Master’ will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
I love to compete. I love to be on the field.
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you’re doing.
Becoming the first Indian woman to compete on Food Network‘s ‘Iron Chef’ and ‘Next Iron Chef’ was really a great accomplishment and led to my spot as a judge on ‘Chopped.’
My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.
My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
God creates us to compete. He creates us to win. It matters. But you’ve got no chance if you don’t do your best.
Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies – where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
That’s the nature of basketball. You gotta go out there and compete.
If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.
I think that many central banks and financial authorities understand that any long term attempt to compete through an artificial depreciation of their currency will not be very effective in the long term.
Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
Good teams understand how to compete, how to practice the right way.
Governors compete. States compete. People & businesses decide.
Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.
You can’t win in any sport without heavily concentrating on revenue generation. You have to be relentless in that regard if you are going to be able to afford the kind of players you need to compete at the highest level.
I’m a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete – joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
I actually used to compete at show-jumping when I was a young’un.
I don’t think I was ever designed to be a ubiquitous worldwide star. I’m a singer-songwriter writing quite personal songs. You’re not supposed to chuck me on a stage with bells and whistles. There was a struggle ahead after that happened, and perhaps I was trying to write songs to compete in that arena.
Divestitures have long been the preferred remedy for horizontal mergers, where there’s an overlap between the two companies. Airlines, for example, may have to sell routes or airport gates where the two airlines compete; cable operators may have to sell operations in cities where both companies operate.
You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn’t like, trying to compete in a man’s world and she wasn’t trying to be in a man’s position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.
They’ll always find somebody for me to fight. Whether I win or lose, they’ll find somebody to fight, and I’ll compete. I’ll make money, and I’ll pay my bills.
The ultimate dream of an athlete is to compete in the Olympics. For us athletes, that is the zenith. There is nothing beyond that.
I love my job. I love to fight, and I love to compete.
We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.
I’ll be the first Australian to compete in the WWE.
The bottom line is that our kids deserve a brighter future. They deserve an opportunity to attend college, regardless of their wealth or class. And our economy needs an educated work force that can compete in the global race for jobs.
I love listening to music in general before I compete. It’s something that calms me down, and meditating and breathing before I get up there to calm all my nerves.
I hope I will get a chance to compete in the Olympics.
Amanda Nunes – I’ve been telling people that forever – she could compete with a lot of the male bantamweights in American Top Team.
If I write a tune and people think it’s nice, then that’s fine by me, but I hate having to compete and promote the thing. I really don’t like promotion.
Your body’s really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.
Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.
I don’t have an expiry date. My body is my answer – when I see that I can no longer compete, when my head is not in it anymore, it will be the time to stop.
Mitt – what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he’s got a great view on China and how they’re trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.
Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers’ ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.
The idea that I can provide for my mother and play at the highest level in the world for football and compete against the best guys in the world – it’s a very exciting idea.
International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one’s self and try to grow as a cricketer.
A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, ‘Have you said anything yet about the good guy? Because I know you spend so much time with the bad guys.’ Because they’re fun. So then you have to make the good guy fun, in order to compete. That’s the challenge.
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can’t really compete on a studio level.
People forget that track and field is one of the hardest sports because we compete against all the world. There are many sports when you are up against only 15 or 20 countries.
I was always more of an athlete. I like to compete.
If you, as a company, can get a deal that I, as a company, cannot get, you can compete with me but not on the merits, because your tax burden is not the same as mine.
The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.
I want challenges. I want to compete. I don’t want it to always be easy. I don’t want it to always just be a few of us girls. I want there to be competition.
The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.
