Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carly Fiorina

I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.

Nico Rosberg

My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

Brandon Flowers

You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that.

Matthew Brown

The question for government is whether it can compete long term with a resurgent financial services industry in terms of getting the skills. If key IT staff are poached by the City, there could be serious consequences for the government's IT agenda.

Today really matters. If you want to compete for a Big Ten title, we can't lose today.

We want to be able to compete each week this season.

Katie Hoff

If I could compete at home, and never leave Rochester, I'd be in perfect condition.

Lauren Willig

My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.

We had a pretty good effort, ... We were hoping to take second. Dexter is really tough. We were thinking we could compete with Fenton, but they were tougher than we thought.

When you watch Ohio State you realize they're so fundamentally sound and well-coached. You have guys that compete for 60 minutes so when you talk to your guys you tell them that they have to compete for 60 minutes and finish every play because that's what they're going to do.

We had some inconsistencies last year at that position. We'll have four guys compete for the job this spring.

We are just looking forward to another opportunity to compete and look forward to districts (playoffs).

Tony Lewis

We're excited about this because we're going to a new conference where we expect to compete for the conference championship.

Buzz Aldrin

Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

Wal-Mart kills local businesses. Wal-Mart lowers their prices so far down that mom and pop stores can't compete with them.

Charlie Haas

Edge will be missed. It was an honor to share the ring with him, and compete against him.

We didn't compete at the plate, period. As many mistakes as we made, as many runs as they scored, we just didn't compete at the plate.

We didn't compete at the plate like we needed to and we just didn't get it done.

We didn't compete as a team as well as we needed too. We've got a lot of work to do, but we look back and see that we're not loaded with a whole lot of junior and seniors. Though that doesn't matter, whether you're a senior or a sophomore you still have to go out and win the race. Look at Hansen. He was going to go out and run a good race, that's what it's all about.

Bryan Robson

We didn't compete and we didn't pass the ball. I could have taken all 11 off at halftime.

We don't have to get into numbers. We know we go out and compete every night.

We don't have to do this to get accredited, but when (North Central) reviews the materials they look for how we are sure students are competent in areas. Every university is faced with accountability.

Andy Hallett

We're not very old. That's the thing that excites me is we're not very old. The girls think of golf as not just something to do, but something to be very good at. We have a lot of fun but, at the same time, we compete in practice. I think it's paying off.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We are right now going through the process, and it is -- as you know, it's always very important that we appoint the right person and the most competent person, the person that really is skilled and has the experience,

We are really looking forward to it, and we were hoping it would be like that. That's why we invited them. They've got a super team with a lot of history so it will take everything we have to compete with them.

Harbhajan Singh

International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one's self and try to grow as a cricketer.

Rick Carlisle

We're excited to move up in the standings by winning. I wish I could say we are playing really good basketball, but we obviously have struggled. It's been a tough road. We've got some things to do to look more like a team that can really compete at a high level in the playoffs.

We want to compete with the majors out there.

We want to compete for the section title and progress further than the first round of the playoffs.

We want to compete for the Big Ten championship. With the team we have, I think we will.

We know we can do well. This senior class, we've been together for a long time, and we've been having success, so I think all of us are pretty psyched, and I don't think we have any doubt in our minds that we're going to compete and do really well.

We know we can compete for a Big East title and a national championship. We have confidence in each other -- we've had it all along.

Tamara Tunie

Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.