Quotes About Competition

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.

The dreams we had of finding meaning and fulfillment through our jobs have faded into the reality of professional politics, burnout, boredom and intense competition.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

His office led into a larger one in which two women of indeterminate age were attacking typewriters as though they were engaged in a race and the loser was to be executed the next morning.

He who fails to know his real and true competitor shall never be able to give a good account of his stewardship in life! Your true and real competitor is your real and true solemn duty to your Maker!

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.

My entire purpose is trying to be the best in the game, and if that exudes beauty too, that's pretty powerful.

The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.

I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my canvas. And I like painting it.

Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came in last, I got 361 get-well cards.

I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.

When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup.

New York is eating young geniuses [businessmen] up alive. It's eating them up alive, Stone. And it's showing the beauty of the city, but it's showing the toughness and the viciousness of the city.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

To be the best you have to beat the best

Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning.