Competitor Quotes

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.

I'm a competitor!

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.

We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.

As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way.

The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.