Best 1389 quotes in «competition quotes» category

I had played some festivals with people and met and been around some good people, for sure. But what I say to my friends and students, anything like that with a grant or a competition, it involves a great deal of luck.

I had received some minor indie label interest when I was 14 after I was in a schools music competition thing in NZ called 'Rockquest', but I knew it wasn't the right time and that I wasn't good enough and needed to concentrate on school.

I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to -- work harder than anybody else.

I have found over the years that American soldiers and airmen thrive on competition.

I left small businesses a little while ago and they were all complaining that Obamacare is putting them out of business. Not only the regulations, which are a disaster and the taxes, but Obamacare is putting them out of business. So you have that concept, the savings accounts, health care. What you really have are ways of getting people energized by take - you have to take down the lines between the state so you have competition.

I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.

I love competition. I thrive on it. I love being able to win the room over before even walking through the door.

I love the training, love the competition, and I still feel like I'm progressing and getting better as a fighter.

I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

I'm going to crush my competition and I'm going to enjoy doing it.

I'm happy because I got another medal. It's a competition and it's ice and anything can happen.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump, and I've done it multiple times in competition. It's definitely a jump that I have in my arsenal. I like to think of myself as the complete skater.

I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me.

I know what a really bad day is...and that's not losing a competition.

I like to compete. I think competition brings out the best in anybody.

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

I love competition.And I thrive on it. I love being able to win the room over before even walking through the door.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

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

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.

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as "working for the competition".

I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

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

I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.

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'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 may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated

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

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.

I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.

I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.

I'm very gratified that I had my little 15 minutes,or whatever [at the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]. It certainly didn't make me rich and famous. But it helped a little bit for a while.

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 mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing.

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.

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

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

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

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

In comparison to the U.S. health care system, the German system is clearly better, because the German health care system works for everyone who needs care, ... costs little money, and it's not a system about which you have to worry all the time. I think that for us the risk is that the private system undermines the solidarity principle. If that is fixed and we concentrate a little bit on better competition and more research, I think the German health care system is a nice third way between a for-profit system on the one hand and, let's say, a single-payer system on the other hand.

In competition, everything is very well planned in advance and very well detailed. You just stick to the plan, keep your head down and be as disciplined as possible in every aspect, whether sleep, recovery or the intensity of your training. And it's all recorded; the data is analysed.

In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.