Famous Quotes & Sayings

If we return to competing between institutions, we're not going to survive. We're too small and vulnerable to be competing with one another. We have to find ways to partner, and that partnership could be as simple as sharing resources.

He was competing out there. He started to get a little tired, but we were going to win or lose with him.

I would portray the lag as a glass half full rather than half empty. It's a pretty great performance when you consider what this quarter was competing with last year.

I would have loved to be there. It would have been a lot better to be competing with other top world athletes. If it's possible let's try and get back into the games.

I got hurt after the fight and couldn't go back out there. It started to sink (in) for me. We put a lot of work in every day, and it's just frustrating to think that we're not going to be competing for a Stanley Cup ... that's why we play.

Clayton Christensen

India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit out of India, competing in the world by the Internet, it's not regulated in corrupt ways, and it is very prosperous.

Barton Gellman

Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

Douglas Adams

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

When you first hear about the new guys having to play, it's like, gosh man.' But then you know it's just part of the game, because the game is a business. We've been competing since the first day. It's nothing new.

With some of the things that happened in the past and earlier in the season, I knew we were going to go through a tough stretch. We have to stay strong. ... we can't give up. We have to keep fighting (and) keep competing every night.

We will manage this in a way that protects the interest of partners that do have competing devices.

Those young kids have been stepping up and playing well. The fact that we're competing well right now speaks a lot for what we're doing.

UC San Diego is the only Division II team competing in our league. While they are at a disadvantage in that aspect, they work very hard and are very well coached. We want to go in there and play our hardest and show that we respect them.

We had a realistic proposal, but it's fruitless if public opinion favors a greater magnitude of scale in the competing projects. All three have a lot to offer. They have one thing in common: They're all on a larger scale.

We're such a young team. Next year the sky is the limit. Two years ago our (current) juniors were just freshmen. They didn't realize how special it was to be in the Super Six and be competing for the national championship.

We all know everyone was not competing in the same conditions.

Kelly Holmes

There is nothing like competing before a home crowd.

We're not just competing with other cruise lines, we're competing with other resorts. It's important that we keep up to date with what they're doing.

John Stevens

To me, there are two things. You can work and you can compete. Don't ever confuse working with competing. Competing for me is working with the will to get it done. Somehow, someway you're going to come up with a loose puck.

Billy Joe Saunders

I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold.

We said earlier in the year that we were not opposed to the principle of women competing and that this was something we were going to do,

Roy Williams

We keep competing all the time and I thought we did a much better job of that in the second half.

We just were out there competing in the game each possession, and we're not going to sit here and look in the past and what has happened then. It's just one of those things where we lost focus and our intensity, and we've got to work on that.

Our kids know their kids really well and there's no hard feelings or dirty play. It's always just two good teams competing and getting after it.

Our returning freshmen and sophomores are only going to get better. Next year we want to have more than two swimmers competing at state individually.

Sam Mitchell

Our young guys are playing hard and competing and we just got to get some other people to jump on board.

Standing on the podium waving the American flag in a foreign country holding three gold medals while they play the national anthem, makes all the hard work and sacrifice worth it. She hopes someday to have that same feeling in the 2012 Olympics in London competing for the U.S.

Nationally, our students aren't competing as well as they need to be with other countries when it comes to science and math. We need to increase the rigor for students, especially since science plays such an important role in the job market.

I was very pleased with her effort and the way she's competing now. She's got that confidence.

Phil Jackson

I was very disappointed with the road trip. We had players injured and our team was not competing as hard as it could. The injuries hurt our team morale.

I was happy with the performance of the entire team. The team worked really hard since the fall and was extremely enthusiastic to get it started. They seemed to be in the meet 100 percent and competing hard. It was a great way to start.

Sasha Cohen

It felt a little empty with her not here. Michelle has always been a big part of the event. I miss competing with her. It really doesn't feel like the Nationals.

I think on the field I'm a complete corner. I'm going to be out there -- the guy competing 110 percent every play. Off the field I don't think you'll see me get in any trouble -- I'll go to practice, go home, get some food, get some sleep, (and) go back to practice.