Quotes About Competition

What's awesome about the Internet is how it breaks up monopolistic markets where middlemen unfairly gobble up outsized fees, leaving us little choice but to keep paying them.

I assumed a business like a film studio would behave like a business and still want to protect its own interests, still do the best it could to get as many people paying for as many of their movies as possible. I realized this is not actually a business about business: it's a business of egos and dominance.

I've always been interested in peak performance, why some people do better in life than others.

What we get paid to do is peak at the world championships and Olympics.

Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.

My goal is to peak big in Rio because my goal is to win gold.

A male athlete's peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.

I felt like when I retired, I was still one of the best in the world and competing at the highest level. I think it's best to bow out and have people remember you at your peak.

Even when I was at the peak of my career, I was never in the race to be number one.

The only two times we have peaked above world average is when we got to No. 1 in the world in 2011 and when we got to No. 2 in the world in 2004 under Michael Vaughan.

If you're at the top of the game, you're earning money. But compared to other sports, like tennis, you're earning peanuts.

For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or 1960. I played Wilde in one, and Robert Morley was in the other. As it turned out, at that particular moment there was no market for any Oscar Wilde movie at all.

Some people who come from high levels in other backgrounds where they're used to being the best or used to being on a kind of pedestal, it's hard to kind of lower yourself again and just be one of the grunts. I kind of enjoyed that challenge in MMA.

If you are successful, then it is only human that you are sometimes a bit saturated. You might also lose that hunger which means that others who are more ambitious will knock you off your pedestal.

I don't put Jardine on a pedestal or worry about any kind of step-up. He's just another fighter standing in the way of me achieving my goal.

The respect from my peers is what means a lot to me. The guys I go up against each and every night. You know, to have their respect, I think that's huge. And that's what I care most about, to have the respect of my peers.

I'm playing against my peers, and if my peers respect me, that's all I can ask for.

I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.

I've always looked for my affirmation through my peers, the people I race against, and within my team.

Let's learn from our peers and then beat them at their own game.

I don't follow the UFC as closely as some of my peers do. Obviously, Conor McGregor is a super talented guy. He is the best at what he does; he's a huge personality.

I get what it feels like to watch some of your peers pass you in a field that you're in.

I wasn't mad, but it was maybe a little frustrating sometimes seeing some friends and peers my age do well. Not because I wasn't cheering for them - because I feel like I was as good as them.

Everyone wants respect from your peers and from fans. No better way to do it than beat Miguel Torres.