Quotes About Competition

For me, running against the Poles and Czechs would be like running against high school kids. And I hate all this gung-ho, run-for-the-red-white-and-blue attitude that the AAU spouts. If that's important to some people, fine, more power to 'em. But, damn it, I wish they'd leave me alone to do what I want to do - run against the best.

In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.

Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.

That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.

If you think about it - if you watch a gymnast compete, you don't see their training behind the scenes. You just see the competition. You see the final result when it's polished. And that is very much what people experience with concerts. They go to the concert. And they see the final version.

Most of the guys I've come across in the UFC have always been really polite and are always friendly with each other. We all understand how hard it was to get where we're at and how hard it is to stay there, so it's a mutual respect for each other.

Sometimes people confuse that polite players aren't competitive.

The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

Political parties can be pretty internecine, and pretty savage.

It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.

Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.

It is football. I'm not a politician.

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

There is no gambling like politics.

Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.

In politics, there are no friends.

American politics is always an open competition.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

It seems the more shallow and mean the candidates are the more they rise in the polls.

Without good horses, you are nothing. In polo, it's 70 per cent horse, 30 per cent rider. And I have the best horses.

I'm completely hooked on polo.

I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.