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Quotes About Competition

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
~ J. J. Abrams
When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most.
~ Charles Koch
In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.
~ John Glenn
When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.
~ Adam Rapp
The cold truth is that the best products don't always win. Many times it's - the products that have the ability to keep users coming back and using them without conscious thought and using them out of habit are the ones that keep us coming back.
~ Nir Eyal
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.
~ David Korten
There are moments when the Chasers drop clangers. It's not that the questions are harder than usual, but it's the pressure and speed.
~ Jenny Ryan
I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.
~ David Ginola
My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.
~ Kacy Catanzaro
The usual practice just isn't enough. I want more edge over my opponents. Cross-training is so important. I can improve myself and have a lower impact on my body.
~ Blake Griffin
Players that have had less minutes on the pitch compared to the usual starting XI will naturally concede more chances.
~ Rivaldo
In an All-Star game the players are having more fun than usual and showing their personalities more than usual. And there are guys in this game - I'm not one of them - who are historically good. First-ballot Hall of Famers.
~ Sean Doolittle
I want to be playing, I want to have a chance to compete for my position in the team, and I want to be useful for the team and do the usual stuff on the pitch week in, week out.
~ Petr Cech
Lara always tells people that he beat me in the amateurs. I lost to him in international competition when I was just 17 years old. In that fight, he ran around as usual. I thought I had really won that fight.
~ Demetrius Andrade
My passion for gaming is well-known among both the Utah Jazz and my team in France.
~ Rudy Gobert
Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom.
~ Jon Huntsman, Sr.
After Rio, I joined the gymnastics team at the University of Utah. It was a hard transition, because I've always competed in elite gymnastics, where we throw big skills. In college, you don't get any points for difficulty, but once I got the hang of it, it was a piece of cake.
~ MyKayla Skinner
There are a lot of apps that are fun to use - they're utility apps; they're fine. But there are a fraction of apps that are in the cream of the crop. You just need to be in the cream of the crop to get noticed.
~ Kevin Systrom
Almost every move in the market is either a move to align with where Cisco is going or to align to compete against us or to utilize that technology.
~ John T. Chambers
Ballroom dancing is so specific... it's so unique in its own way, that there's not really a lot of outlets where you can utilize that.
~ Artem Chigvintsev
I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.
~ N. R. Narayana Murthy
Ayrton was our toughest rival. He would leave no stone unturned to get the utmost out of his car and his team.
~ Nigel Mansell
When you play against top players, sometimes you can play - you can play your utmost and you still get beat.
~ Tim Howard
When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
~ Abhishek Bachchan