Compete Quotes

The night before I compete, I like to have steak. Meat is especially important for female athletes because it provides them with the nutrients they need to perform at their best.

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.

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.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.

I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.

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.

Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

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

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.

If I could compete at home, and never leave Rochester, I'd be in perfect condition.

We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.

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.

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.

We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete.

As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

Edge will be missed. It was an honor to share the ring with him, and compete against him.

We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.