Quotes About Competition

I've never seen a single episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'

The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into.

HIL boasts of a high-class list of players and coaches like Ric Charlesworth, Barry Dancer, etc.

Systems win you nothing, and football players win you games.

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.

British drama can compete with America creatively. But the two systems are very different.

In Italy... people think that they can win matches with only systems. I say this is impossible because, otherwise, there wouldn't be players that cost 100 million euros and others who cost 1 million.

You can talk about systems until you're blue in the face but that's secondary - if you're closing down, if you're first to the ball, it doesn't really matter what system you've got.

I've had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you don't, she just completely overpowers you.

There are a lot of great fighters in this sport, but they just don't bring what I bring to the table.

Hollywood is a casino. You have to put your chips on the table and hope for the best.

Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

A man marries the most gorgeous girl he can find because It's human nature to want the best of anything. If other men admire her he likes that, too. We all work best under competition. After all, no one wants to face an egg beater across the breakfast table... or find a horror movie in his home when he doesn't even own a TV set.

Not to psychologize, but it's hard growing up in a family of 14 to ever feel like you're the center of the universe, or that you're that special or different. Because when it comes down to it, you're still fighting for food at the dinner table.

Our poker table is eight guys, and then I'm the ninth; I'm usually the only girl at the table.

My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.

When there are four or five tables going on it is hard to keep your concentration.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

When I became king on the court against my brothers, they stopped playing with me. When I started to learn the game, play the game and appreciate the game, I knew I had a chance to be good at it. But the Naismith Hall of Fame, that's not something you prepare for. That's taboo.

Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass.