Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Steve Largent

When I look back over my career, having an opportunity to compete against really good players like Lester Hayes are some of the highlights.

Nelson Mandela

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

Nico Rosberg

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

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.

Robbie Lawler

The past is the past. I'm just here looking to compete and no matter who it's against, I go in to fight hard and do what I have to do.

William Graham Sumner

We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men.

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.

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.

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.

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

We have an exceptional team preparing to compete in these Games. We feel that this is, without question, the most accomplished team and perhaps the strongest team we have placed on the field of play in a Winter Olympic Games.

We have a lot to lose. We're here to compete for a championship. We're not looking at the seeds. We're looking at the opportunity to move on to the next round.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. Rankings aren't what we can decide. Winning these is the only way we can impress these people. We need to win the Big East now. There is no next year. We knew we (could) compete at this level since the beginning.

We can't hang our heads and tomorrow the sun will come up and we will still be in first place. We proved that last inning that we can compete but just need to get it going earlier.

We have to view it as positively as possible or we won't be in the right frame of mind to compete on the court.

We just didn't show up to play. Defensively, this was our worst outing of the year. We didn't compete at all.

We just didn't compete for the first 16 minutes of the game. And they're too good to be able to get away with that. Soquel played a great game, and Hannah was just unconscious.

Well, really what I hope to see is us compete really hard. This is a team of people that are used to winning a lot of matches. A lot of them have won state championships and are used to winning, so I just hope they come out and compete as hard as they can and get something going.

We were hanging with them punch for punch the entire game. We felt that we could actually compete with them, and we did for 2½ quarters.

Today was a tough day emotionally and physically. Most of us had been up since 5:30 a.m. and to travel and play a night match all on the same day was rough. I'm just proud of the girls that they were able to compete hard and get the job done.

Today's worker is looking for flexible, family-friendly work options. The federal government can't necessarily compete for talent with the private sector on a dollar-for-dollar basis, but we can make sure we are competitive in quality-of-life issues.

You know for her to come in and compete as a freshman, her first couple of days of training on the hill you could see it.

Unlike other shows of this kind ours is one where people compete to not win the title.

Unlike many other retailers with gas stations we can offer a convenience store that doesn't compete with the 'host' store.

Dave Tippett

We got these guys three times in a week, you're going to get to know each other well. I like games like that. For our team right now, it's a good thing. You like putting your team in situations where they have to compete hard, because that's when they feel good about yourself. That's the kind of games you want going into 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.