Quotes About Competition

Acting can be a very cruel mistress. It's not a meritocracy. In other walks of life, by being good at what you do, you can achieve success. That isn't always the case in this business. Every actor knows that.

Once a friend of mine applied on my behalf to enter the Miss Delhi, Face of 1993 contest. I soon fell in love with the concept and the ramp walks too.

My goal is to be the absolute best in the world and to beat everybody who walks this earth. And you know what? There's a lot of people out there.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.

I don't have 'The Jerry Springer Show'. I just got 'Family Feud', but some of them families, when they lose, man, they have some real conversations with each other back behind that wall, but I've never been involved in any of them.

I am a sore loser. I will be the first to admit that. When I get on video games I am not that good and when I play against somebody and they beat me, I want to rip the game out the wall, that type of thing. So, I really hesitate from playing them.

We don't like to fight other Brazilians, but it's pretty cool if there's a belt on the line.

If you want the belt, you've got to fight everybody that lines up in front of you. You have to prove yourself by beating them anyways, so what does it matter if you beat them before you have the belt or after you have the belt?

I don't really care about people who are ranked below me or whatever. I just want the belt. If other people are calling me out, that's OK. That's on them.

After you win all these belts, you cannot fight all these mandatory guys.

At the end of the day, I am going for all the belts, so I am going to have to go through all of them. And I would live to fight the U.K. guys - even in the U.K.

Anybody with belts, I'm coming from you.

I want all the top guys, all the belts.

Ben Henderson is a unique challenge.

I'm not stupid - if you buy one of the world's best goalkeepers, it's not to keep him on the bench.

Sitting on the bench, scoring a goal, and then being back on the bench is quite difficult to deal with for an attacker.

I do not want to be sitting on the bench.

Coming off the bench or starting doesn't matter to me one bit. I just want to win.

You don't want to stay on the bench. You want to play every game.

It is not a problem to sit on the bench: absolutely not. When you have three games in a week, and you don't play, though, you have to think about it.

I want to play and be happy. I am not happy being on the bench, like most players.

No one wants to sit on the bench and not play.

It is difficult for me to accept that I only sit on the bench in the league.