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Quotes About Competition

Higher SAT scores mean better college matriculation rates. So it's no wonder that private schools in ultra-competitive environments would grease the qualifying process as much as possible.
~ Eliot Schrefer
I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.
~ Paul Kane
Even if you're doing the national insurance awards, there's still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums.
~ Jimmy Carr
Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?
~ Jerry Saltz
Sometimes I wonder if I'm running against Mitt Romney or Sen. Hatch.
~ Scott Howell
Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
~ Venus Williams
When I was on the practice squad, it felt like I was just a guy who came in off the street three days a week to help actual NFL players get better. It was unsettling, unfulfilling and there were a few times when I wondered whether I would get my shot. But I kept showing up and kept competing. I was too stubborn to stop believing in myself.
~ Danny Amendola
Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.
~ Kim Yuna
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
~ Woody Hayes
I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried me to classes and competitions all over the place. When I was 12, I came to London as a finalist in a singing competition and I was completely wide-eyed.
~ Anna Maxwell Martin
Playing lovely football and making wonderful saves is not a challenge.
~ Robert Green
Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.
~ Val Kilmer
T20 is fast-paced and a wonderful vehicle to attract wider audience. On a technical level, it probably has impacted Test cricket.
~ Isa Guha
I've had many highs in my career, and Eurovision has been a wonderful experience.
~ Engelbert Humperdinck
Against Dirrell I was thinking: 'Hold up, he's not as fast as me.' I can hit him with my left hand. It's a wonderful feeling.
~ James DeGale
Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.
~ Florence Pugh
OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.
~ Craig Johnston
I look at pageants as a really wonderful thing to women. I think it helps a lot of women. It gives them opportunity. It helps them better themselves.
~ Shanna Moakler
Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.
~ Timothy Noah
Eurovision is a wonderfully joyous and unique event.
~ Jessica Mauboy
There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture.
~ Annie Besant
When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?
~ Henry Flynt
When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition, understand the job the customer needs to get done.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
When I considered PSG before I signed for Juventus one thing that put me off was wondering what the point is of coming second every year.
~ Eniola Aluko