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Quotes About Competition

In a world where routine production is footloose...competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.
~ Robert Reich
He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.
~ Roger Clemens
Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series.
~ Roger Clemens
It's a great feeling to know that I've played the best golf throughout the season of any of the guys for the second time in three years, it's really nice.
~ Rory McIlroy
Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time.
~ Rosie Perez
Every time I go out there I expect to win.
~ Roy Oswalt
I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate.
~ Russ Feingold
It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.
~ Sam Abell
Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.
~ Sanya Richards-Ross
How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen.
~ Serena Williams
Against Bradley, every time I'm trying to dunk, dunk, dunk.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
Coming from Google, you don't exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown
~ Simon Hughes
I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.
~ Stephanie Rice
Naturally the U.S. trails in gold medals because every time we win one, we hand it over to the Chinese to pay off our debt.
~ Stephen Colbert
For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.
~ Ted Turner
All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.
~ Terry Gross
When it's game situation, when it's game day, game time, when it's World Cup, when it's these tournaments that happen once every so often, I live for that, I live for that challenge.
~ Tiffeny Milbrett
The reason we are at the ballpark is to win that day's game, and we don't need to be concerned with anything else during the time we are in uniform. It makes things a lot simpler, a lot easier.
~ Todd Helton
Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.
~ Tom Kristensen
Even as I speak, in four hours time the Kyalami Grand Prix will roar away
~ Tony Lewis
I've got to be first. ALL the time.
~ Ty Cobb
I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.
~ Venus Williams