Competing Quotes · Page 7

I was a true amateur and embodied what the Olympic spirit is all about. To me, competing was all that mattered.

— Eddie the Eagle

Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.

— David Boudia

While some are clearly trying to compete with me I'm competing with no one but myself.

— Anonymous

“But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

I have had an amazing life traveling the world and competing, doing what I love.

— Chris Hoy

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

— Apolo Ohno

If I were to doubt myself, I wouldn't even have a chance to be competing for the NXT Women's Championship.

— Peyton Royce

I am not competing with anyone, I just want to focus on good music, content-driven films and do well in life.

— Diljit Dosanjh

During dark times, real entrepreneurs come out. They are not competing with 10 look-alike companies for engineering talent, so it's a great…

— Douglas Leone

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working…

— Arthur Levitt

“That is why it could happen anywhere, given the right ingredients: particular people in government, competing with others- or with each other-…

— Clea Koff

I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes…

— Leslie Moonves

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so…

— Tinashe

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat…

— Jordan Spieth

The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for…

— Edwin Moses

I love to compete in Abu Dhabi. I've been there two times, in 2009 and 2011, and it was a great show.…

— Glover Teixeira

Many of us are trying to lead multiple lives: child, mother, wife, lover, star, giving small doses of oxygen to each and…

— Joanna Murray-Smith

You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of…

— Dee Dee Myers

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests,…

— Wes Jackson

I am taking a risk with my claycourt schedule. It is pretty heavy from now up until Roland Garros. I am scheduled…

— Juan Carlos Ferrero

I've been a professional for I think 13, 14 years. It's not easy hitting balls every day and staying really motivated throughout…

— Jelena Jankovic

They're a handful, but Emily deals with that all the time and, as an actor, I deal with that all the time,…

— Tinsel Korey

It all goes back to the players putting everything out on the pitch. They commit to the game, so the support gets…

— Chris Wilder

There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out…

— Dean Spade

I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.

— Hansika Motwani

Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

— Barton Gellman

Part of competing against your teammates is supporting them - I'm a firm believer in that.

— Sony Michel

I stay away from big chunks of carbs and try to keep it lean, even when I'm competing.

— Joel Parkinson

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race…

— Michael Johnson

I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.

— Lucy Liu

When deciding between two competing theories, always go with the one that doesn't involve a magic spell.

— Emo Philips

I don't know anybody that is like super close friends but also competing for the same medal. That would be kinda odd.

— Christian Coleman

I don't think I am competing with Hardik. He is a terrific cricketer. Yes, we are all-rounders, but we are different from…

— Vijay Shankar

It's all about getting your head down, focusing, working hard, competing in training, keeping fit, and picking up points.

— David de Gea

Being together, unselfish and competing hard. Do that, and everything else pretty much takes care of itself.

— Jaren Jackson, Jr

For me, it's more about having fun out there and competing and trying to make a difference in the game in every…

— Gerrit Cole

Competing is not what we are here for. It's rather to make best possible of our own self.

— Michael Sams

You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.

— Gabby Douglas

Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

— Janine di Giovanni

I think the outside world is more fascinated by the fact that me and my wife are competing against each other than…

— Aleister Black