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Competition Quotes
"It's not quite as important who you beat as that you end up on top."
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"Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition."
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"No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place."
40
"I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game."
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"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."
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"Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?"
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"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."
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"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."
37
"Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish."
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"Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better."
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"No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style."
37
"Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets."
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"Of course, competition against others is there, but it should serve to challenge you. To show you how well other people are competing against themselves."
37
"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."
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"I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it."
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"I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition."
37
"When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition."
36
"No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square."
36
"The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible."
36
"Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies."
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"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
36
"But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?"
36
"So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license."
36
"Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition."
36
"As a Republican, I am all for competition."
36
"Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient."
36
"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."
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"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
35
"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."
35
"You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying."
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"While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points."
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"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."
35
"One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition."
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"There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private."
34
"That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances."
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"We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression."
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"I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that."
33
"Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one."
33
"Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful."
33
"And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story."
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"Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that."
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"Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition."
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"But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground."
32
"Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition."
32
"Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit."
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"We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion."
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"Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?"
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