Competition Quotes · Page 40

When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize.

— Ian Rankin

Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

— Ambrose Bierce

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.

— Meredith Baxter

“It is not important how many competitions you have attended, it only matters how many you have won.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

— Rafael Nadal

My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.

— Lindsey Vonn

I have a practice of really not talking about the competition. I'm from the old school.

— Rush Limbaugh

Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play.

— Barack Obama

We cannot have a mayor who does not support pension reform. We cannot have a mayor who will not support managed competition…

— Kevin Faulconer

Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles,…

— Donald Barthelme

America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be…

— Chaka Khan

Competition is something that brings you to the next level because if you have no competition, and you know you are starting…

— Shkodran Mustafi

As far as everything else, I know I'm not above anything with a competition, or football IQ, all the values we have…

— Jalen Hurts

Well, competition is so important, even when you're an artist. And if you deny that there's competition, then you're a liar. That's…

— Daniel Craig

The competition to get above the rest and be the lead commentator, or whatever you want to call it, is much fiercer…

— John Motson

“Compete?! There isn't any competition, Loretta, because he's already won. Now I've given you what you wanted but don't expect to get…

— Gideon Rathbone

“Competition has taken place at the wrong levels, and on the wrong things. It has gravitated to a zero-sum competition, in which…

— Michael E. Porter

Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American…

— Gabriel Kolko

Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

If children can't handle competition when it's necessary, or take some criticism, or never strive to be better because their parents inadvertently…

— LZ Granderson

“CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler. MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing. CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging,…

— Neil Gaiman

The Grand Prix Final is an opportunity for me to go out and experience new jumping passes in competition. I put in…

— Ashley Wagner

“What distinguishes a true competitor from a mere participant is that the competitor derives enjoyment from the nature of the competition aside…

— Alisa Melekhina

If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my…

— Michelle Kwan

So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without…

— Milton Friedman

I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.

— Robert Barry

The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.

— Nathan Lane

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

— Trishelle Cannatella

There is big resistance from vested interests in China that don't want to open up to competition.

— Henry Paulson

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

— Vincente Minnelli

I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.

— Nick Diaz

I thrive in competition. It feels good to improve timings and create records.

— Hima Das

That's why WCW and WWE were doing so well; we were thriving off the competition.

— Billy Gunn

“Competition in the current system is at the same time too broad, too narrow, and too local.”

— Michael E. Porter

That moment when your trying to watch something, and your entire family decide to have a competition of who can be the…

— Anonymous

I'll be right here in my spot wit a lil more cash than I already got trippin off you cause you had…

— Drake

Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.

— Maria Cantwell

You've really got to, first of all, love the game, you got to love the competition, you got to love to compete.

— Sofia Kenin

“Stop Competing With Everyone Competition can be healthy, and even fun at times, as long as we are not too attached to…

— Alexis G. Roldan

What I'm going to miss is the competition, being, that's OK, I can watch from the house.

— Greg Gutfeld