Quotes About Competition

When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.' E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it's execution.

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.

Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don't.

I can just about enjoy it. There is an initial hurdle, where I feel like, oh goodness me, I'm going to watch a sitcom or a drama and it's my competition. But luckily quality tends to override that, so when I have been watching 'Him and Her' or 'Girls' or any of the shows I admire, you simply enjoy them.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.

I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.

One of the best sayings in tennis and sport is that pressure is a privilege.

When you're with another actor and doing something very intense, often you pull them over to your side, or they pull you over to theirs. But if you stay in your own truth, you can play that perfect tennis match. I always want to bring my power, but not in a way that eliminates the whole game!

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

There is no such thing as bad luck in tennis. Just bad technique.

When my heart rate is so high, I seem to be able to play even better, without making bad decisions. It almost switches the mind off, so that I can play more instinctive tennis.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

This is a dream from when I was kid. I'm playing tennis almost 18 years, and of course everybody's dream is to play the final of a Grand Slam.

I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that.

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

My brother is a musician and I'm in tennis.

I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.

This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.

Even if I play backgammon with my coach, I hate to lose. I won't talk to him for, like, an hour. So imagine how it feels when you lose at tennis. That makes me determined not to lose because I hate it so much. Even at a set down and match point, I always believe I can come back.