Quotes About Competition

If you're very good, that can sometimes actually hurt you. How? Well, the promoter might say, man, he's going to come over here and beat our champion and will raise his price or will never come back and defend the belt.

All those fights I've done since 1999, I was either the promoter or co-promoter.

I just work hard and do what I've got to do and let my promoters and matchmakers handle that part. I basically tell them to get the guy that has the best record that wants to fight.

Boxing is so easy for me, sadly. I don't mean to be cocky. The promoters don't like that I walk through other girls but it's not my fault that I'm so good.

I don't want to have to go out there and fight and be laying on my back the whole fight and have like a boring fight and the fans booing and stuff. I don't know why promoters love fights like that. I don't understand it.

Based on paper, because of my size, a lot of promoters and hole-in-the-wall indies will book me against the local big guy.

You have to be confident about the product you're putting out. It's just like when a boxer is promoting a fight. You can't go out there and be like, 'This guy might beat me.'

Expose yourself to the products and promotions of other manufacturers, and your own field of new ideas will greatly increase.

Being in UFC is a great promotion for me because I have more fans from all over Australia.

Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

I want the best guys the promotion has to offer, put them in front of me, and I'll beat them.

I always did promotion for my fights.

Stampede Wrestling was a promotion started by my grandfather, Stu Hart. When I was competing for them, I would come out 'through the curtain,' slapping everyone's hands to my ring song, Cyndi Lauper's 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun.'

KSW might just be the best promotion you've never heard of.

I need to be a promoter, man. I need to start a promotion. If I was a promoter, man, I would be the best matchmaker. I would be putting on the most exciting fights.

To me, KSW is a huge promotion and it's on my list of one of the things I want to do as an MMA fighter. I think that goes for any European fighter.

At my last Under-23s game I heard Reading were interested. I knew I had to push for that deal with a top three club fighting for promotion.

When I defeated Soto Karass, I asked for a fight against Paul Malignaggi. A few months went by, and I saw that Golden Boy Promotions wanted to do a fight between Malignaggi and Shane Mosley. The truth is that it made me angry, but that's the way things are sometimes in the world of boxing.

Conor McGregor became a monster in the UFC, but he was already a star in other promotions.

The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.

Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

Proof is the product that you put on the field.

It doesn't matter what division you are in. You must prove that you deserve to be where you are every game. The proof is not offered with words, but with action.

You read a book, write a detailed review as proof you've read it, and they give you a badge. That's where my competitive nature came out. Give me the badges! I would sit in the library all day, not 'cos I loved reading, just because I needed those badges.