Quotes About Competition

Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.

It's elite sport and elite preparation for games.

Most people don't understand the mental preparation that's also involved in wrestling.

I went to drama school and it didn't prepare me for the ruthlessness of the industry at all, or the reality of it.

I prepare the same for every opponent.

I train and prepare for every contest the same so I can compete to the best of my abilities.

I've played in a few Champions League matches and got into quarter-finals - sometimes unluckily knocked out - but you have to prepare like any other football match: you have to play the game, not the occasion. That's been instilled in me since I was a kid.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

'The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

I already know what boxers do; I've been in it all my life. I know what they do, and I know how they prepare.

If I couldn't compete, I wouldn't ride. I don't ride for fun; I ride to prepare for the next competition, and everything that I do when I am in the saddle is always a calculated step in my path to the next win.

The reality is, I'm not 24 or 34 anymore. Things are going to be different when I prepare for and when I compete in an athletic endeavor.

It is a lot of pressure to prepare for the Mr. Olympia.

I used to hear other boxers talk about levels and it used to frustrate me. But now I understand: sometimes it doesn't matter how much you prepare, there are just people you can't beat.

Always, always, always when you prepare for a game, you prepare to win the match.

I just want to go out and compete. Plus the main thing is, at 55 I need a good amount of time to prepare just to make the weight cut. At 70 I can just take fights as they come and just compete as much as I want.

We can't get bored. We have to prepare like we're playing the best team in the NFL.

We always prepare for winning the match.

Celebrity Apprentice' was something where you don't know what you're going to do the next day. Every two days, somebody goes home, and you don't know if the next day you've got to be the project manager or what's going to happen, so you can't really prepare. You really have to be on top of everything.

Live television is just like competing on live TV. You're never going to be perfect. You just try to prepare the best that you can and execute the best that you can and try to be in the moment.

It doesn't take a lot of preparation for the Rumble compared to how you would prepare for a match where it's you and another guy.

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.