Competition Quotes

I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.

See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

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.

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.

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition... and does not harm consumers and innovation.

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.