Quotes About Competition

I love tag team wrestling, and it's different than all the other matches.

People love to be entertained and love the different storylines that go on in pro wrestling.

I want the ankle match with Kurt Angle... or I want Brock to see who is the best from MMA and pro wrestling.

Something happened in 1997 that changed the whole industry, at least for the next five, six, or seven years. It wasn't about the 24-inch arms and the cartoon characters anymore. It was about the wrestling and what we were doing in the ring physically.

It's hard to explain, but it's a beautiful thing to watch in wrestling when someone loses in the exact perfect way.

I think Villanova is a really good basketball team and Jay Wright's a great coach.

If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur.

A good wrist spinner is a good wrist spinner against any opposition.

Having a fall, breaking your wrist, that could be the week before the Olympics. That is why sport is always exciting.

When you're competing, you have to wear a sleeve that goes all the way down to your wrist. When you're training, you usually don't wear long-sleeved leotards, so there's a difference between training and competing.

I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

I don't know why, but American sci-fi writers seem to focus on the near-future, which has given us Brits a clear run at the most fascinating.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

My husband, a.k.a. Swede, and I both come from athletic backgrounds, so once we identified the goal - get book published - we attacked it. At any given time, I would have my writing out in 25 various forms - either contests, mentoring critiques, agent/publisher queries, etc.

History plays for keeps; individuals play for time.