Competition Quotes

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.

I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.

Sure, but competition is good for the user.

Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine.

There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.

There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.

I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.

I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

Competition is good and has served us well.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.