Quotes About Competition

If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.

The first—imitation—merely does enough to keep your competitors in check. It does not create space in the marketplace; all it does is temporarily ensure that the pack of nondifferentiated competitors keeping their doors open will include you.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

Q: What did the tomato do after falling behind in the race? A: Ketchup.

This has the effect of forcing marketplaces to compete in latency. You end up with exactly what you have now—people spending millions (billions?) of dollars to save milliseconds (microseconds soon?). What an expensive and needless mess. You could probably find a cure for cancer in a year if you just reassigned all the smart people who are now working on this artificially created and otherwise useless problem.

As you can see, the words fair play are not in my vocabulary. Well, they are in my vocabulary, but only to say that they aren't.

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.

I was about 14, and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son - who was more into basketball - didn't want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.

If I can drop two touchdowns a game and win, I'll take it every time.

You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.

The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

You would think that Freddy Couples-Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time.

I've been racing a long time, and I realize you go through good streaks and bad streaks.

Any time you're playing a playoff-caliber team, it is always good to show well, because you don't know when you'll be seeing them again.

I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.

They took one from us last time, so now we took one from them

The good thing is we got this over in spring training. We played them three or four times and got all the hugs out of the way. Now it's time to go out there and beat them.

Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.

The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.

All sports are time control demonstrations.

Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.