Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Right now it's more important to have Lauren for the Conference Championships than to have her compete in the multi-events at Drake. It's unfortunate that she was invited to compete in the event, but we need to do what we can to nurse her back to health and have her ready to go in two weeks.

Peter comes to compete every time he hits the water.

Ports are there to compete for the services of those in attendance.

Personally, privately, we don't hate (Morgan). Kinship, by clan, there's nothing wrong with that. He does not have the knowledge or the competence to lead his people.

I was really proud of the way we played this afternoon. Everyone played well and we were very consistent. It is nice to know that when we play to our potential, we can compete with most everybody that is that on our schedule. I'm looking forward to tomorrow to see how the guys respond after playing a great round this afternoon.

I was relieved. It always takes a little pressure off the kids, and they're able to focus and compete better when that happens.

Much like David, Wade was a proven player right away. He's about as competitive a guy as you will face. I haven't seen him since we played them last year, but that doesn't matter. That kid knows how to pitch, he knows how to compete and he's a winner.

(McNicol) has run to compete at meets this year. He was tough tonight.

Dwight Howard

Maybe we're not mentally ready for a playoff series right now. But physically, I think we can compete with any team.

My main focus is seeing that these projects don't compete with one another for funding, because if they compete, they will all lose,

My love is at corner. I'm just happy to be back and be able to compete on that one-on-one island.

No doubt if she had been able to compete she'd be nationally ranked.

Obviously, we helped ourselves today, and that's good for the program, but we still have work to do in our minds. Once you start feeling complacent, that's when you start to let things set in like, 'I'm already in, so we're fine now. Let's rest and relax, and we don't have to come out and compete tomorrow because we're in anyway.' We're going to fight tomorrow.

Chad Campbell

Obviously, your goal is to be able to compete in all the majors. I haven't done that as well as I'd like.

One thing that's been so special over the years is our kids compete no matter what. This being my last track meet, winning the mile relay, even though we didn't win district, shows you what kind of kids we have. Winning the mile relay is always important to us. I think we found four kids that are going to do really well. They're all underclassmen. I expect them to go to Austin, probably this year.

Nick Harkaway

My dad and I compete on the pool table; that's the most important competition of our lives. The fact that I'm writing and it works for me is one of the great joys for him. We talk about writing, and it's great.

We want to collaborate without having to create another nonprofit that would only compete for scarce resources.

We are here to compete, we will compete fair and square, and we will go home with loads and loads of medals.

Eric Davis

We are here to compete every second of every game.

We did not compete at all. We've got to take what we've learned in practice and put it to use, and we've got to play with heart and compete -- show up with the enthusiasm and the passion it takes to win.

We did not compete as well as we should have, and a lot of that was a mental thing which they (the Lady Irish) were too willing to accept.

What we need is more experience. To compete at the highest level, we need more big-game experience, and this game will be huge for us in the tournaments.

Gordon Brown

The only way we have to compete is by moving in the high value services, high tech industries.

I am very excited about Mortensen. He possesses three pitches and will compete for one of the starting roles.

Venus Williams

I am very disappointed to withdraw. But I feel like I need more time before I am able to compete at the highest level.

John Anderson

I am very proud to continue it in the fashion that we have done so over the past 25 years. I look forward to continuing to compete at a high level.

David Boies

But they don't come out of nowhere to compete with Windows. Not in 12 years.

But it's not that much pressure in this round. Not enough people compete so most all of us move on. The pressure comes in the next round.

But having said all that doesn't mean we're going to give it away. We're going to compete utmost at conference and section time. ... I'm in no way pessimistic about the season and after a week of practice I'm feeling better. People are going to know we're there.

Because of the fact that we're under higher education, they don't look at this as an educational priority. We shouldn't be there. We should be under tourism or economic development. We can't compete with the rest of higher education.

Kobe Bryant

I look forward to it. You know he's going to compete no matter if it's the All-Star game, on the playground, or versus the Lakers. He's going to compete hard.