Quotes About Competition

When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize.

If I win the Mercury Prize, I'll be very honoured. If I don't win it, I won't have lost it. Someone else will have won it. And that will also be good.

Boxing should not let - we should not let - the people in business of boxing should not let a person to just walk right in and get the grand prize of boxing. You can't do it in basketball, football, hockey.

I was never, in my whole school career, given a job as a monitor, a form captain, or a prefect. I never won any kind of prize.

The Championship is a really tough league with a huge prize at the end of it.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

When I started playing on the beach there was nothing, no prize money at all. I didn't expect there to be any, and I didn't even dream there would ever be money.

My introduction to art was winning a Weetabix drawing competition: I did a picture of a combine harvester. My sister used to read Jackie magazine in those days, so next I drew a picture of Mark Bolan for them and won a prize.

In a way, I think Sae-byeok lived her life to the fullest, so her desperate need to win was different from the others, and she didn't necessarily have to earn the cash prize.

We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.

It used to be that almost all innovation came from the U.S. and a small number of other developed countries. That's no longer the case, and as China and India grow, it's changing even more. Expect a lot more Chinese and Indian Nobel prizes in the future.

If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

Parts win prizes, not actors.

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

Incentive prizes work.

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

Now, I'm ahead of my father. He got other prizes... But he did not get a Nobel Prize.

For me, football is not about money - I want to win prizes.

As a player, you always want to win prizes.

I'm not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it's nice to be nominated.

You want to win all games, which means you want to win all cups and all prizes.

It was always about being first, about winning. There were no prizes for second place. My mother and father said, 'Do whatever you want, as long as you're the best at it.'

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.