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Competition Quotes


"Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries."


"It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough."


"It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us."


"Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do."


"Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine."


"We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there."


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


"Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe."


"The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen."


"Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off."


"The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition."


"So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer."


"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."


"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."


"I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature."


"Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition."


"I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock."


"The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition."


"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."


"I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition."


"Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition."


"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands."


"I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition."


"To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all."


"It's not quite as important who you beat as that you end up on top."


"Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me."


"I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition."


"The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us."


"The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself."



"Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you."


"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."


"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."


"I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition."


"Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?"


"The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else."


"I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person."


"When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition."


"I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine."


"A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride."


"There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won."


"Today, the competition is considerably more intense."


"We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not."


"Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well."
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