Quotes About Competition

I went from being a big fish in a small pond to going to City with a lot of top players, I felt like I had to work really hard to be the best.

We heard about people who went backstage at dog shows with scissors and cut parts of a poodle's hair off to sabotage the dog.

I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.

A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.

I love to play pool.

I like to play pool. When the ball goes in the pocket, you win.

We had a backyard pool. There was often a bit of fun rivalry between us.

My mom was a championship pool player.

Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.

When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.

Pool is a fascinating game, but there is always the added factor of the money that really makes it hot.

Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.

My dad and I compete on the pool table; that's the most important competition of our lives. The fact that I'm writing and it works for me is one of the great joys for him. We talk about writing, and it's great.

There are so many good players in the NBA, and I just want to be at the top of the talent pool. I want opposing coaches and players to fear me.

I'm a big card guy. I play Rook, Liverpool Rummy - love that. I play Pac-Man, shoot pool.

You can only do so much in the gym or pool. Seventy per cent of it is physical, but the final 30 per cent is down to the mental capacity to actually control what you can do in competition.

The WWE is fine. They can afford to not only sign anybody they really want, but they can also afford to sign people just to keep them out of the talent pool that everybody else has.

There have been some clients who have said, 'In order to compete, I'm going to put a pool in and then sell the house.' That's a terrible idea.

International cricket and Test cricket in particular is hard and you are going to get injuries but, if you've got a strong pool of players to pick from who can all come in and do a job, well that can only be a good thing for English cricket.

My friends, they can't beat me in pool or bowling.

Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.

If China has cheap labour, Africa has cheaper labour. This is why China started buying out poor countries.

Despite offering dollar menus and frequent discounts, many of these chains also scored poorly in terms of value.

In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.