Quotes About Competition

'Survivor' was not fixed. There's no way to fix 'Survivor.'

My sister Susan, who was the first one, was pretty good in mathematics and then chess, and my father chose chess because it was easier to measure the results.

Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks when they get into trouble. Instead of making banking boring, let us make it a normal industry, susceptible to destruction in the face of creativity.

Everything is susceptible to corruption of one sort or another - humanity is one big cheat - but it matters particularly with sport, which ceases to be itself the minute the outcome's rigged.

If it's bathos you want - and I suspect we are all bathos junkies in the end - nothing gives it to you quite like watching sport. Unless it's playing sport.

Yes, there are times where I might play one bad service game a set. If you look at Sampras, he might play one slightly suspect service game every three sets. So to beat someone like that you've obviously got to be right on top of your game. I've basically got to get rid of that in my game so it makes me very difficult to beat.

I love playing basketball more than I love getting fined and getting suspended.

There will always be players injured or suspended.

Belichick's actually great. I wouldn't mind being the New England Patriots. They seem to win a lot. Four-game suspension here and there doesn't hurt nobody.

I usually try to eat lot of calories. With so many events, it is important to sustain a high level of energy through the entire meet. I usually eat two hours before a meet.

There are not going to be hundreds of cable networks doing original programming; they won't be able to sustain the model.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

You have to kind of sustain a level of performance in the Championship to be able to come out of it at the end of the season.

No one had told us that in L.A. we would get only American food. I had no choice but to eat rice porridge without any nutrition supplement, and that definitely affected my performance in the last 35 meters of my event since I couldn't sustain the energy level.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.

India's states must compete, not march in lockstep, if India is to develop its own path to sustainable prosperity.

I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.

We don't go into a market without a chance of a 40 percent share and sustainable differentiation. We wouldn't get into wiring oil rigs if we didn't believe we could get 40 percent.

Personally, most of my injuries were ones that I sustained during fights in the UFC, not in practice.

A lot of singers entered the industry with me. A lot of them struggled. Many have not been able to make it but some have sustained.

As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.

A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers.