Quotes About Competition

I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet.

We are training as hard as all athletes in other countries.

You can't keep bringing people in from other countries, finding them jobs when Americans need jobs first.

English football is really different to football in other countries.

That's something I've always wanted to do, compete against other countries.

We should be growing and make ourselves, as a state and a nation, more competitive. India, China and these other countries are not waiting for us.

If you look at Germany and France, a couple other countries, those are really kickboxing markets.

Britain has still got rather fewer astronomers than many other countries - the French and the Italians, for example. Why is that? I don't think those countries have better brains.

It's great to be able to bring the best players from other countries and that they want to play in our league.

In Brazil, U.S., Japan and some other countries, there are many sports being played and I hope that will be the case in India as well. Sports is good for the country.

More and more, other countries are able to manufacture things cheaper, beating us in the marketplace in a lot of ways. So we need to do whatever we can to make sure America's ability to protect its ingenuity is as strong as it can be.

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

I just used to go to the same auditions with all these other kids I went to school with. I didn't feel like I was really good at acting. I didn't feel like I was a really talented person that needed to be doing this.

I remember my father, when I was a kid, retiring me on 50. He never used to let me bat past 50. He'd say I had to retire to give the other kids an opportunity.

When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.

They want the Olympics. We ought to make sure they don't get the Olympics.

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

Having played in the league during the '80s, '90s, and the new millennium (old, I know), I had the chance to see firsthand how the best point guards of our time played the game.

If you look at Arsenal today, I really enjoy watching them play - they play some really good football - but that is not enough to win football matches or to win competitions. But in our time, we were winning, and we had the strength to not play well but somehow manage to win the game 1-0.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

I'm out here to beat everybody - that's what I'm tying to do.

When the Olympics comes around, it seems like every country is against each other, but we're all buddies out here. It's about giving feedback to fellow riders and letting the riders feed off each other.

The players are out here to help win games and to improve, not to make a movie. They're not actors. They're players.

Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games.