Quotes About Competition

Unlike singers, who can earn for years by singing one song, we artistes have to be on our toes all the time. If I write something funny or create a joke in the morning, there will be someone narrating my own joke to me the same evening.

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.

Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.

My biggest desire and everyone knows this is to have a cross-promotional fight between Bellator and UFC. That is unlikely to happen, though.

If nerves undo you, then you're unlikely to make it as a top footballer.

I find the strongest predictor of people who do well at Shopify is whether they see opportunity as something to compete for, or do they see opportunity as essentially everywhere and unlimited? It's a rough proxy for pessimism and optimism.

Manchester City seems to have unlimited spending restraint and are attempting to have all-star quality at each position - two deep. That will be hard to beat.

In France, the matches are sometimes very tight, and so it is difficult to score. A free kick can unlock a game.

No one seriously believes that unlocking a cellphone to switch carriers is equivalent to piracy.

The Champions League is so difficult, It's like a lottery: sometimes you're just unlucky.

I think I'm both lucky but also unlucky, because sometimes I miss so many matches.

I won 11 titles but yeah, no Slam. Am I proud? Yes. Am I also disappointed? Yes. But a couple of times I was unlucky.

It is unnatural for drivers and team members to be sitting on their hands when we would usually be racing.

I always say football is very unnatural sport. Nobody loves to just ram into people.

The daily glitter of skyscrapers competing with the stars is an unnecessary, unforgivable decadence.

Especially with women in music there is this unnecessary competitive element. And, like, why? Why do people do things where they try to put peers up against each other?

It is okay to play tough and try to hit guys hard in the course of the play - that's fine - but I don't like unnecessary roughness or things that happen after the play.

There are great players who go unnoticed because they're not on the best teams.

The Lakers, obviously, that's L.A.'s team. The Clippers and Clippers fans are put on the backburner a little bit and can go unnoticed due to the championships, due to the people who played there.

One of the demonetization benefits, in some markets like used cars, is that organized, transparent businesses are gaining at the cost of unorganized players.

Stylistically, every fight in the division is a hard fight. Lyoto Machida is unorthodox, Jon Jones is long and tall with good wrestling, Ryan Bader has good wrestling. You can't pick one and say, 'I want to fight him.'

Zidane was the most unpleasant among my colleagues. I have never liked him on the pitch and we have always clashed. Albeit a champion for his class, I have never managed to see his fair play.