Quotes About Competition

In games, you notice there's more sprints than in Bundesliga. It takes a while to get used to.

I don't take that away from Conor, that he beat Chad Mendes on short notice. Chad took that fight knowing he had a chance to beat Conor, so that's Chad's fault he took that fight.

The UFC thinks they run off their brand, but that's not true. The UFC runs off the fighters, so hopefully, these fighters take notice and how I'm going about my business.

In training and at the club, players know that the player is good. You notice when the guy arrives, who's the ace, who's the player who maybe can't take the level.

The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'

As someone who went to school in the '70s and '80s, I can't say that I noticed much of a 'medals for all' culture myself.

I wish we didn't have to be nude to be noticed... But given the game as it exists, women make decisions. For instance, the Miss America contest is, in all of its states... the single greatest source of scholarship money for women in the United States.

George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

If I get noticed for my individual performance, that's what happens. Other than that, I'm just trying to win the game.

I just feel like when I come up against another team, I'll always look at their best players and I'll think, if I can stop these doing what they are doing, then I'll get noticed and I'll help the team as well.

I think that somehow I got the notion that I had to be successful, to be the best in the world.

You get notoriety when you fight.

Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.

The novelty business is astounding. We can't keep up with it.

Boxers are absolute novices in the clinch.

I've always said given a chance, with me being 100 per cent and none of the niggling injuries I always seem to pick up now and then, that I can compete with anyone in the league who is challenging in my position.

Nowadays, women are looked at as equal to the men when it comes to competing, and I think that's a really cool message to send to little girls and show them that whatever they want to do, they can set their mind to it and make it happen.

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

Nowadays, it's not more about the sport; it's about the business. All the boxers became businessmen, not boxers. They look just to get the money, not the glory.

I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.

Competition is nothing that scares me away from nowhere.

There is nowhere to hide as an international back-row forward.