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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."
66
"Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do."
58
"Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine."
57
"It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough."
56
"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."
53
"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."
47
"Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals."
43
"Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe."
36
"The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen."
36
"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."
35
"So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer."
35
"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."
33
"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."
32
"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."
31
"Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition."
28
"The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else."
27
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
26
"The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition."
25
"The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself."
25
"It's not quite as important who you beat as that you end up on top."
25
"There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won."
24
"From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition."
24
"The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues."
23
"I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition."
23
"To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all."
23
"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands."
23
"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."
22
"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."
22
"I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour."
21
"And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing."
21
"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
21
"Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition."
21
"When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition."
20
"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."
20
"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."
20
"The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started."
20
"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."
19
"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."
19
"We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light."
19
"A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition."
18
"I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition."
18
"France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete."
18
"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."
18
"No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place."
18
"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."
18
"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."
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