Quotes About Competition

Those Olympic lifters - how can you call someone the strongest man if he can't walk over to a car and pick it up?

The Spanish and the English leagues are the strongest.

When the guards noticed my chessboard, they all wanted to play me. And when they started to play me, they always won. The strongest among the guards taught me how to control the center. After that, the guards had no chance to defeat me.

I'm the strongest fighter that Adrien Broner will ever get into the ring with.

I strongly believe that'players have to express themselves to their full potential, they must be able to make choices during the game.

The Ministry of Civil Aviation should strongly recommend to the cabinet that Jet Airways should be merged with Air India, not only to ensure air services are not restricted but also to enable Air India to recover its former premier position.

While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.

The National Stock Exchange was strongly opposed by Bombay stockbrokers and captains of industry. I thought some competition is good. The exchange has given a very good account of itself.

You need to start games strongly and finish them strongly.

I always feel very strongly that Bloodsport is going to deliver and going to continue to try and pick up the ante every single time.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

In Little League back in Oklahoma, I struck out 14 batters in a six-inning game, and we won the state championship.

When you're up there and everything feels good and you're competing against the pitcher and the pitcher strikes you out, you're like, 'OK, yeah, I struck out, but that's OK.'

I continue to be a believer in a standard-based industry, where your lean cost structure is a huge advantage.

Classical is a more refined and structured dance form. Folk is made for celebration. That's not a very competitive dance form. Though you can bring classical on stage, folk becomes limited. Like you would love to do bhangra and garba at parties, but when you see it on stage, it is very limited in terms of movements.

The more I learn about industry structures, the more I feel that once a company has paid the fee, in a manner of speaking, to enter a sector, it becomes even harder to stay afloat.

In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.

My father worked for Unilever, running a mass-spectrometry lab - mass spectrometry is a process for elucidating the chemical structures of molecules, which means that he presided over a legal form of corporate espionage, breaking down the component parts of competitors' products in order to copy them.

Most athletes won't push a sport forward unless they have the incentive to do so - let alone when the structures of a sport have been set up to actually incentivize them to hold back.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

When I putt well, I do very well. When I putt poorly, I struggle to be in the game.

To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.