Quotes About Competition

I don't understand executives that pit women against each other, the fact that they brought in 'Body of Proof,' Dana Delaney is a friend of mine, and the two of us were just rolling our eyes, it's like, of course, you finally have two great female leads and you're going to put us on against each other.

People told me it was impossible to beat the Americans at their own game; there was a lot of politics involved and outsiders didn't stand a chance. But if you're good enough, nothing else matters - I'm living proof of it!

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.

What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.

I like him as a guy, but I'm going to knock him out - Roy Jones is just a prop in a fairytale ending to a great career for me.

It's impossible in heptathlon to have a proper rivalry - you're spending two days together and seven events and dedicate your life to it. It's like a marathon: two days of mental and physical exhaustion.

I'm in this game to give the fans proper fights, fights they will remember.

I want the kind of feminism that allows me to have a voice and to compete on equal terms with men yet still, potentially, to have one of them hurl me over their shoulder and carry me off somewhere, because I still find proper, old-fashioned masculinity deeply attractive.

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

If black people use their resources properly, they can become as competitive as any group in society - take control of our neighborhoods, our businesses, our schools, including our teachers. The only thing keeping black people from doing it is this idiotic idea about integration, about being racially balanced.

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into theater, and I ended up winning a Shakespeare competition. All I had to do was imitate people properly, and I ended up going to the finals when I was about 16.

What I was doing wasn't good enough. It was good enough up until I met someone who was doing it properly - someone who was stronger than me and in better mental and physical condition than I was.

What happens to our economy and all our wonderful innovation if people are not properly incentivized and rewarded?

My first Mr. Olympia was 1991 and that was in Florida against the great Lee Haney, who became Mr. Olympia in 1984, and I started training properly in 1983.

By now, we all know that Hollywood producers always chase after the same properties, that the sharks circle simply because the other sharks are circling.

To ensure fair competition, there must be effective controls on currency manipulation, and monopoly pricing needs to be outlawed on such items as intellectual property, especially pharmaceuticals.

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.

Book proposals are written like business plans. You need to identify your market, see what the competition is in the space, calculate how many books you think you can sell, work on building a platform to sell them and promote them.

The whole idea is to propose an immersive experience. When you watch tennis, you watch from the outside, you're far from the court, the camera is far away and the whole story is about two persons hitting a tennis ball and trying to win.

You really need a unique selling proposition, and people need to care about that unique selling proposition.

We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.

Wrestling is a business, it is show business and wrestling championships are props.

All these pros are getting better every day. You just want to catch up to them.