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Quotes About Competition

We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.
~ Al Attles
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
~ Al Boliska
One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
~ Al Kaline
I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.
~ Al Michaels
I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.
~ Al Oerter
Marketing is a battle of perceptions, not products.
~ Al Ries
Too often, however, greed gets confused with positioning thinking. Charging high prices is not the way to get rich. Being the first to (1) establish the high-price position (2) with a valid product story (3) in a category where consumers are receptive to a high-priced brand is the secret of success. Otherwise, your high price just drives prospective customers away.
~ Al Ries
The essence of positioning is sacrifice. You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position. Nyquil
~ Al Ries
I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.
~ Al Unser
It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
~ Alain Prost
Mohali Kings XI was probably the
~ Alam Srinivas
He is interested in the feelings of the squash ball, and of the champagne bottle that launches the ship. In a football match his sympathy is not with either of the teams but with the ball, or, in a match ending nil-nil, with the hunger of the goalmouth.
~ Alan Bennett
There is a lot of obsessive behavior in Silicon Valley about time to market. It is frequently asserted that shipping a product right now is far better than shipping it later.
~ Alan Cooper
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
~ Alan Hansen
To win is to win, and to lose is to lose
~ Alan Lee
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~ Alan Shipnuck
La adaptabilidad es la clave del más apto, y la extinción de una especie representa la evolución de otra.
~ Alan Weisman
Al igual que nuestro pariente el chimpancé, siempre nos hemos matado unos a otros para disputarnos el territorio y las hembras, pero con el advenimiento de la esclavitud nos redujimos a nosotros mismos a algo nuevo: a un cultivo de exportación.
~ Alan Weisman
I don't remember that I ever really went all out to come up with a costume or a persona that could compete with everyone around me. I didn't know what to do. I found Halloween scary for just that fact - it meant that I had pressure to get up and be scary, makeup and all that. That was pretty horrifying for me.
~ Christopher Lloyd
If you are not a Dukie, and Duke is having a lot of success year after year, you might get tired of it. They might not like your competing personality or competing persona, and if you are not a Dukie, or you don't love Duke or Christian Laettner, then I can understand the hating on me.
~ Christian Laettner
My personal goals are to fight and beat the best opponent possible.
~ Andre Ward
I'm not going to change and get the emotions out of my game. It's important to have emotions in sport. If you don't have emotions, it's like you don't really care. Because if you care about something, you're always going to be emotional. Doesn't matter if it's sports or personal life.
~ Alexander Zverev
Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
~ Walter Kirn
I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops.
~ Sophie Ellis-Bextor