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Competition Quotes
"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 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."
50
"When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition."
49
"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?"
49
"Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition."
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"The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started."
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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."
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"No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place."
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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?"
48
"Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish."
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"There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be."
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"The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there."
46
"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."
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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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"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."
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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."
45
"Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets."
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"Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition."
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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."
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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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"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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"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
44
"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."
44
"No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style."
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"So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license."
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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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"Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better."
43
"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."
43
"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."
43
"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."
43
"As a Republican, I am all for competition."
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"Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient."
43
"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."
43
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
42
"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."
42
"Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition."
42
"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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"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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"I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing."
41
"We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression."
41
"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."
41
"In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on."
41
"Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition."
40
"No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square."
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"One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition."
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"I think we all have had better days in competition."
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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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"Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition."
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"The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed."
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