Competition Quotes · Page 60

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

— Rayvon Owen

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

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

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

— William Feather

Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue,…

— Hasso Plattner

While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning…

— Douglass North

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick.…

— Katarina Witt

If you're one of the biggest teams in the world, which obviously Manchester United are, you want to be in the biggest…

— Owen Hargreaves

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an…

— Amy Waldman

We've got the greatest Premier League, greatest domestic competition in the world but the downside of that is we've got fewer and…

— Sam Allardyce

American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in…

— George H. W. Bush

I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my…

— Cassie Steele

When I signed my first contract with Sao Paulo I still wasn't sure that I was going to have a successful career.…

— Cafu

“Rather than reacting to every obstacle or dashed expectation, incorporate the event into your overall plan. Real life setbacks like rejections, broken…

— Alisa Melekhina

I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York,…

— Annette Bening

Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly…

— Alan Greenspan

Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters…

— Kajal Aggarwal

People tend to think about trade as if it's competition between companies - if Apple wins, Google loses. But that's false. Trade…

— David Autor

I can be transparent, and I know the competition is checking on me too, which is why it's OK to say that.…

— Ice Spice

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

— Alberto Juantorena

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

— Peter Thiel

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

— Ben Domenech

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

— Caeleb Dressel

It's competition. I think that's what drives your top athletes in the UFC, getting in there against one other person and mixing…

— Matt Hughes

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

— Saina Nehwal

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

— Eddie Vedder

The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.

— Alberto Juantorena

It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring

— Ed Mayo

The object of the Gay Games is not competition, but to promote gay and lesbian life styles.

— Ruben Diaz Sr

The competition is tough at the international level. There are very good players.

— P. V. Sindhu

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

— Major Owens

There are millions to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let thisget around.

— Herman J. Mankiewicz

“In a world chasing competition, build a space so original, comparison becomes impossible.”

— Marion Bekoe

I try to keep things as simple as possible: my job as a javelin thrower is to stay in good shape and…

— Neeraj Chopra