Quotes About Competitive

One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.

I think the thing that makes Indiana basketball special is that they have incredible teams, both college teams and pro teams, and they're all about grit.

Irish national teams are usually very physical.

Chelsea are a very physical and technical side.

English football is very strong physically, but Spanish football is more technical.

As companies become bigger, the global environment more competitive, and the rate of disruptive technological innovation ever faster, the value to shareholders of attracting the best possible CEO increases correspondingly.

I think I can be competitive. Heck, anybody who can walk to the first tee here has a chance.

My on-court temperament is totally to just win and destroy.

Kobe has a different temperament than me. We're both competitive, but he was much more outspoken. I would let anything roll off me. Nothing bothered me. I never complained.

Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.)

The academic world is competitive. For ideas, grants, students, funding.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him

Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

One of the Arsenal players came up to me afterwards and said it had been an honor to be on the same pitch as me. I thought, My God, that is a great thing to say when your team has just lost.

The opportunities for political and economic entrepreneurs are still a mixed bag, but they overwhelmingly favor activities that promote redistributive rather than productive activity, that create monopolies rather than competitive conditions, and that restrict opportunities rather than expand them. They

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

For Porter, competitive advantage is not about trouncing rivals, it's about creating superior value. Moreover, the term is both concrete and specific. If you have a real competitive advantage, it means that compared with rivals, you operate at a lower cost, command a premium price, or both.

It takes time to develop real competitive advantage, to understand the value you create, to achieve tailoring, trade-offs, and fit. If you grasp the role of continuity in strategy, it will change your thinking about change itself. Paradoxically, continuity of strategy improves an organization's ability to adapt and to innovate.

French women seem to see themselves as members of an exclusive sorority La Société des Femmes Françaises. As members, they encourage (pressure actually) each other to be slim and careful about their appearance. Competitive American women sabotage each other's weight loss efforts. If you don't believe this, lose five pounds and see what happens. In

It's a competitive sport, a competitive nature, we're all professionals.

One of the reasons we are profitable is the changes that we've made and the long-term relationships we've built with major corporations. We have gotten out there and put our nose to the grindstone and simply been competitive.

I wouldn't want to get in the ring with me, I can promise you that.