Competition Quotes · Page 37

Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

— Mariah Nelson

There is no worse situation to enter competition than losing the home opener.

— Didier Deschamps

I am happy. I skated well. This is a competition and sometimes things don't go as you'd like them to.

— Irina Slutskaya

I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.

— Edward Burtynsky

Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.

— Keeth Smart

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I think competition is fantastic for this country. I think it's great for the Republican Party.

— Doug Burgum

I started learning jiujitsu when I was eight years old. I had a lot of success and won ever competition I even…

— Michael Bisping

I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job,…

— Adam DeVine

If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase…

— Julius Erving

Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive…

— Letitia James

During 'Idol,' I wasn't expecting anything. I just wanted to survive the competition, but my album and my music are a big…

— Jessica Sanchez

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political…

— Thomas E. Mann

Whether between family members or others, there should be a competition. Without that healthy competition, it is impossible to grow as actors.

— Naga Chaitanya

I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's…

— Gordon Lightfoot

America has remained highly engaged in global affairs throughout decades of growing energy dependency, so it's hard to imagine it would disengage…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason…

— Larry Bird

To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on…

— Michael Eisner

Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a…

— George Will

Bring on those tired, labor-plagued, competition-weary companies and ESOP will breathe new life into them. They will find ESOP better than Geritol.…

— Russell B. Long

But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves…

— Laozi

There's the saying that perfect is the enemy of great, because if you strive for perfection you'll maybe never ship. There's a…

— Michael Morhaime

“I don't know where this pressure came from. I can't blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other…

— Portia de Rossi

I focused more on sharing my gift and performing than worrying about it being a competition.

— Rayvon Owen

Even if we were friends, I consider this a sport, a competition, so there are no ill feelings towards any other fighter…

— Alistair Overeem

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

— Brian Tracy

“Hand-dyers are never in competition with each other. Rather, we push each other to expand our worlds.”

— Clara Parkes

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.

— Aaron Zigman

My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.

— Arthur Blank

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.

— Rafal Blechacz

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

— Colin Powell

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

— Fulton J. Sheen

We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions.

— Alberto Juantorena

It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

— William Feather

'The Federalist' is a small staff, and our close-knit family of senior contributors outwork our competition because of that closeness.

— Ben Domenech

Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit.

— Peter Thiel

You don't want to show anything, any behavior giveaways that your competition might see, right?

— Caeleb Dressel

Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the…

— Eddie Vedder

I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.

— Saina Nehwal