Quotes About Competition

I don't think it's good in any business for anyone to have a monopoly. On the other hand, you need to have size to get costs down.

We have been told many times that we have become too big, but these are things that only someone who has no idea of the size of the competition can say. We are too small.

When I was younger, my mom worked at a roller rink, so I'd go all the time. I learned to skate pretty well. I won the limbo all the time.

There's a lot of emotions that always come out after a skate of a lifetime. I always start crying because there is so much buildup to that competition.

So for me having that element of being able to be competitive wasn't a problem. I'm very competitive. I thought if I could skate first, acting would come second. I could say my lines and then go do what I was saying. You don't have to fake it, you're not really acting.

I don't even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing - that's what I do. Any contest, it doesn't really take much. Just get me on the course and I'll get going.

I want to be the top man in our sport. I want to be that guy everyone wants to see skate.

We're so excited to skate in a Canadian market.

I grew up watching PRod and Chris Cole. To be able to skate with them in competition is an honor.

Any chance we have to skate for another Olympic medal, it's amazing.

At Skate Canada, we have a history of very professional judging that's very fair, and we're proud of that.

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

The way skateboarding contests were in the past was like going to a basketball game and being told at the end of the game what the score was and who won. Think about how unengaging that would be if you didn't know who was ahead or if it was a close game.

As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work.

The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they're not relevant in our world.

I hope that skateboarding gets a lot of new fans out there and that people start to fall in love with it and get to realize that it's a really fun thing to do and a really fun thing to watch, especially as far as the competition goes.

Being in the Olympics isn't the chance for one of us to go out there and win the thing... It's growing skateboarding, creating more opportunity for kids to be able to fulfill their dreams of being a pro-skater.

There's definitely a lot of people out there in the industry who feel that skateboarding shouldn't be a competitive sport. Or be a sport in general at all. Those are the people who want to keep skateboarding at the core side of things. But me personally, I love seeing the sport of skateboarding grow in general. It's just going to naturally happen.

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

I was a serious competitive figure skater and still ice-skate as much as I can. Anyway, I once brought a date to the rink to have him experience what I was into. So all is going fine, and then - bam! - he bit it extremely hard! Skate time was over. His bruises were scary. I felt so bad.

There is always the next big thing, the next big skater.

I'm an ice skater. I'm all about the glitter.

I have been compared to Mao since we were both junior skaters. We've felt the rivalry since then, so we wanted to avoid each other. However, she has been my motivation.

At most contests now, skaters are judged against themselves.