Competition Quotes
- Page 11I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.
Justin Bieber
Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.
Helen Wills Moody
Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.
Janet Jackson
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
Vernor Vinge
After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.
Jessica Ennis
The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.
Ai Weiwei
I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.
Chris Bell
I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.
Paul Kane
I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.
Kurt Busch
I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.
Anna Eshoo
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.
Michelle Malkin
Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.
Olympia Snowe
I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.
Annette Bening
You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
Ed Harris
A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens
We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions.
Alberto Juantorena
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
Katarina Witt
I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
Michael Caine
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard
The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.
Joe Sakic