Competition Quotes

The TV season is a year-long thing now, and the networks are starting to look at it that way, thanks to cable, satellites, and competition.

I'm for each and against none.

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

I don't believe that competitions are important.

I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.

What I like best is the competition itself.

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.

We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens.

You never compete with the people in your crew; you have your own team. Competition is only with those people whose film is releasing alongside on Friday and never with one's own team.

I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.

Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.

The Champions League is a big ambition and all the footballers want to play in it. It is a very important competition.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.

There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them.

The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against emptiness.

There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.

I don't believe in competition, ain't nobody else like me around

That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

I looked around, counting the competition. Sixteen. To win, all I had to do was incapacitate each one, place my hand over their hearts and turn my palm into a flame. Easy. Yeah right.

American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.

Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.

I worry about protectionists, which is another way of saying less competition, less trade around the world. And I view those as twins of negativity.

There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around.

Competition is for dogs and horses.

A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.

I like to think that when an athlete wears Armani, it makes him or her feel confident, and as we all know, confidence is fundamental to winning in any competition.

In the Christian Story, mind and matter - invisible things and visible things - are both real. The Christian view is not the only way of viewing the world, of course. It has competition.

It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.

I did not think so at first. But the US is so incredibly dependent on oil, that they wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.

In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.

Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.

In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.

With less competition, corporations can use their power to raise prices, limit choice for consumers, cut wages for workers, crowd out start-ups and small businesses.

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

I am happy. I skated well. This is a competition and sometimes things don't go as you'd like them to.

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

Golf really excites me only when the course is difficult and challenging. I love competing. The pressure of competition against fine holes and fine players makes me feel very much alive.

Golf was my vehicle to competition and I can't play if I can't compete.

I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.