Competition Quotes

When you're training for jiu-jitsu, particularly if you're training for a competition, you have to be pretty prescribed in the variety of what you eat.

If I'm training I'm cutting weight for a competition. I'm hard. I'm pretty much eating animal protein and that's it. No rice, no beans, certainly no sweets.

I definitely don't feel a sense of jealousy or competition, and that's a really good feeling.

I've always been a big thinker that the more international competition that we create through sports the better relationships we'll have with countries.

My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.

People say, My God, you're so disciplined. But it has nothing to do with discipline; I loved it. Because I knew that every time I went to the gym I was one step closer to winning the competition.

How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.

The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.

It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in the United States.

We know what happens when Europeans start dividing themselves up and emphasizing their differences and seeing a competition between various countries in a zero sum way.

Don't work harder than your competition, be your own competition.

I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we [with brother] never had any competition in baseball. We always tried to help each other.

Competition is healthy. It makes you work harder and strive for more and try to find that extra one or two percent in your game that you could possibly improve.

There is always some element of competition. As and when more players show interest in a space, it endorses increasing demand. I have never taken competition as a treat.

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here.

The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion.

Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.

Cooperation is always more powerful than competition.

If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrate.

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics.

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

I'm confident you haven't seen the best yet. And I will only get better through time and through tougher competition.

The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

I think everyone needs competition in life, whether it be myself, you, the President.

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

If you play it safe, middle of the road with all the right notes, you might win. If you are unique and have too much personality, you might easily score a '0' in competition.

I was done with wrestling and I was teaching with competition behind me. It was that experience that gave me confidence and propelled me to fight.

Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.

I love to watch football.I actually really love to watch almost any competition with a score at the end.

I'm afraind of losing my sense of trying to always be better. I love competition against myself.

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says.

Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.

One of the dogs in the competition, a Portuguese Water Dog, is related to President Obama's dog, Bo. But they only see each other at funerals and weddings.

This is me.’" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. ‘Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose if you phone first

Competition, of course there's always competition, and I like competition.

We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.

The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.

I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money.

When leaders of a professional team perform a scan, they examine the trends dominating their customer demographics, education, government policy, and especially their competition.

I really feel like if everyone listened to their angels the world which shift. We wouldn't see any kind of greed or competition - it would really be the world of kindness .

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

It's been that way since the beginning. I just been playin, I aint even notice I was winnin.

It's such a small place, not much to do but talk and listen. The men are jealous and the women all in competition.