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Quotes About Competition

Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
~ Thomas Sowell
There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
~ Nancy Kerrigan
You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.
~ Katie Ledecky
If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?
~ Chris Martin
You have regulations on top of regulations, and new companies cannot form and old companies are going out of business. And you want to increase the regulations and make them even worse.
~ Donald Trump
No one wants to lose, period. It should hurt, it should sting, and you don't want to feel that feeling again.
~ Hope Solo
You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.
~ Grete Waitz
I'm an actor for hire. It's important not to forget that you're disposable....When you have that mentality, you fight for the jobs you want.
~ Scarlett Johansson
You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy, it's just a natural thing.
~ Thierry Henry
The only thing I care about is winning. That's all. If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.
~ Jerry West
I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
~ Ichiro Suzuki
The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.
~ Steven Gerrard
Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.
~ Dennis Rodman
Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we're embarrassed because that's not the way we want to play soccer.
~ Abby Wambach
Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.
~ Nancy Lopez
That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.
~ Dale Earnhardt
My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.
~ Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility.
~ Stephen Baker
Ohno is credited with the saying that "having no problems is the biggest problem of all." The result is the most productive automotive manufacturing system in the world today, which is sustaining its lead despite every attempt by its rivals to copy it. It has its origins in the need to overcome a constraint.
~ Stephen Bungay
natural selection explains "only the survival of the fittest, not the arrival of the fittest.
~ Stephen C. Meyer
As Darwin described it, the ability of natural selection to produce significant biological change depends upon the presence of three distinct elements: (1) randomly arising variations, (2) the heritability of those variations, and (3) a competition for survival, resulting in differences in reproductive success among competing organisms.
~ Stephen C. Meyer
More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.
~ Stephen Carter
Gwine to run all night!Gwine to run all day!I'll bet my money on de bobtail nag—Somebody bet on de bay.
~ Stephen Collins Foster
Airplanes are like women—pick what you like and try to get it away from the guy who has it, then dress it out to the limit of your wallet and taste.
~ Stephen Coonts