Quotes About Competition

If I play a round of golf with a pro, it's with Bubba Watson.

When I turned pro, it was one of my goals to get ranked in the top 50. I didn't really feel the pressure. I had some fear but at the same time I was happy to play tennis and playing stronger players.

My second pro fight, I fought on the Joe Calzaghe and Bernard Hopkins undercard.

Most people won't play basketball with NBA players, because you have to be in the NBA, but you don't have to be a pro to play against pro gamers. There's a chance they could load in and play the same game as them.

You paid attention to every cornerback that was drafted before you. You always tried to outperform those guys. And for me, that's always been in the back of my mind - starting with not being invited to the combine, of wanting to make sure I had a good Pro Day and then getting drafted at the end of the sixth round.

I have led the pro league scoring for flve years and that's honor enough for anybody.

I'm not a politician, I'm a pro golfer.

I'm a Pro Bowl defensive end.

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

Anybody in that welterweight division that think they want this, you know you don't, because I'm a problem. I'm a problem in this division.

The thing about a real economy is that it actually is like the game of Monopoly in the sense that when one person has all the money, the game is over. And in a game of Monopoly, of course, that's quite charming, but in a real economy, it's much more problematic.

It is a certain type of guy who's OK with having a girlfriend who is better at football than him. It is actually problematic. Some guys really can't cope with it.

China will be the answer to Japan's problems.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.

The idea of competition, particularly in a creative atmosphere, is always there. And, if you don't acknowledge that, you are doing yourself and the process a disservice.

Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.

More of the same will just produce more of the same: less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

I'm not out there to be blocking shots or fighting guys. I'm out there to produce offensively.

How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.

There's no question 'Amazing Race' is a beautifully produced show.

Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle.

There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy to make a living and never get anything produced.