Quotes About Competitiveness

I think competitiveness is taken in a different way by different people. I'm not a yeller and a screamer, a jumper and a pusher.

Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.

You're doing yourself a disservice if you're not building your roster and your team to give yourself a legitimate chance to score 21 points.

I was extremely aggressive from the start.

People I played with at Swansea will tell you that I wasn't laid-back when I was there. I just wanted to win so much on the training pitch that I'd end up falling out with people.

I'm sorry to say it, but we have to be more arrogant and more streetwise because we are coming up against some great teams who have that streetwise mentality. They bring their play into it: you do what you have to do to win a game. Simple as that. Be streetwise and clever.

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in '72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn't stop when you stop skiing.

When other teams fear you, that's a big difference.

Of course, everyone knows my history as far as technical fouls, but I don't think you can match the intensity that I bring to the floor.

If I could have played on another five years, I would have stayed here because Botafogo have a young, competitive team. We've improved not only technically but also as a team. Even after me, Botafogo will remain great.

I have a big TV screen and I sit there and watch the Premier League and I get angry sometimes - 'I'm better than that guy sitting there.' Of course, I am joking. But I analyse. I look at it technically, how they play, how they defend, how they attack, why did he change that player? That's the only way I can look at it after all these years.

Players who play in the Premiership play everywhere - they are strong, quick, and have good technique. It is the best football.

I think Irish people pride themselves on being at the forefront of technological industries, things like the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, all those hi-tech industries, we're always there or thereabouts.

I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.

And when your phone rings, pick it up. Open yourself up to the possibility a phone call offers. Discover this remarkable device called the telephone. It will give you a serious competitive advantage.

In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.

But I know you. You'll hem and haw for a bit, but in the end, you'll go because you hate to lose—at anything.

left uncorrected in an organization, victim attitudes can erode productivity, competitiveness, morale, and trust to the point that correction becomes so difficult and expensive that the organization can never fully heal itself

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.

She was the quintessential twenty-first-century woman: She could build a high-rise in a Chanel suit and Jimmy Choos, give lessons in multitasking, and freeze the heart of the coldest competitor with a single unblinking gaze over the rim of her ebony-framed reading glasses. But that persona was like a bodysuit that she pulled on at eight in the morning and peeled out of at five in the afternoon.