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Quotes About Competition

I'm in competition only with myself, and I always want to push the envelope.
~ Ekta Kapoor
I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.
~ Tyra Banks
When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.
~ Danny Meyer
You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.
~ Wynton Marsalis
The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry - a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely - to push in a coherent direction.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
~ Aaron Rodgers
I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Only the fat-cat corporations can really afford to put on two mega-ready-to-wear shows a year, or four if you add two haute couture shows, or six if you count men's wear. Resort and prefall push the number up to eight. A couple of promotional shows in Asia, Brazil, Dubai or Moscow can bring the count to 10.
~ Suzy Menkes
I have fought my brother some times before. We got hurt sometimes, needed stitches, but it was normal after the fights. We always had a positive rivalry that pushed both of us to our best.
~ Lyoto Machida
I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.
~ Jean Alesi
I was always pushed to do that much more, and in the long run that made me more of an MMA fighter. My mom always told me that if I let it go to the judges, I'd lost. There was no way I was going to win a decision, so I had to find ways to finish the fight fast.
~ Ronda Rousey
Gray Maynard? Kenny Florian? All these guys, they're UFC fighters, that's all. They're pushed by the UFC, but when they leave the UFC, they're forgotten. When's the last time you heard Josh Neer's name? You haven't. When's the last time you heard about Roger Hurerta? You haven't. They're no ones anymore.
~ Eddie Alvarez
One thing I do get aggravated by is people shouting with frustration if they get pushed and shoved in sprints. I don't push and shove anyone, but I don't care if somebody does it to me.
~ Mark Cavendish
My brother one time after a little league basketball game, I think he messed up or something had happened in the game, ends up getting in an argument with my dad. Ultimately he gets pushed down and he ends up cutting the back of his head. He had six or seven stitches over a 10-year-old basketball game. That was tough to watch.
~ Jason Witten
I'd like to see a show about what happens to young sports stars who've been pushed too hard by their parents or coaches.
~ Denise Lewis
When you're fighting a guy like DC, he's just coming in and pushes you. You have to push him back.
~ Alexander Gustafsson
Every time Luis Suarez is close, he pushes defenders around.
~ Petr Cech
Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?
~ Peter Thiel
Keith Jardine pushes me the hardest because we're in the same weight class and we get competitive with each other, we make sure we're in shape and ready to compete.
~ Rashad Evans
I think it's exciting because it pushes you harder to write a great song. Even for established artists, it has to be really good now because people have so many other options.
~ Nina Nesbitt
I think one of the big things with Jonathan and me is that, you know, we love to compete, but it's not a matter of competition to knock each other down. It's a matter of pushing each other to do better. And we've always been like that our whole life.
~ Drew Scott
First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of the markets we want to serve. We've made great progress on this front, but we need to keep pushing.
~ Gerard Arpey
I'm always trying to figure out ways to one up everyone, and that's what I love about competitions. I love challenging myself and pushing the envelope.
~ Ryan Sheckler
The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access.
~ Ted Sarandos