Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Carpenter

I think guys are ready to go. I think guys are ready to start the games that count, competing for real. We take the field here and we want to win, but making it worth something. I think guys are ready to go.

I think it will be important to do well in this meet. It's a quad meet, which means there will only be four total teams competing so it will be important to develop a team atmosphere. It would be nice to come away with a win.

I think Joe's overall game has seen him competing physically at a better level this season. He'll be even better after working out all summer.

I thought he was great tonight. And that's the way we need him to play every night. With that same intensity and that same drive. He's a fantastic player when he's competing and playing hard.

Ralph Brown

I think that's what we thought would happen. The competing stores are also very friendly and have a lot of service. They're trying to retain their customers.

I think that what we've got is a boutique-type operation. If we could get into a large chain, that would be awesome, but somehow I can't see us competing with Levi Strauss.

We are all for people competing in whatever sport they want to compete.

Nick Saban

We're still competing at that position, but Gus has taken most of the reps. That's the way it is right now.

We're starting to get more excited about it. It's still a long way off, even though we're leaving today. We get to Italy on Feb. 8 and we don't start competing till Feb. 13, but (there's) the excitement of being there for the opening ceremonies, the Olympics themselves and the ambiance that goes with it.

We're seeing an influx of competition on national level with various players partnering together, ... Now we have a number of fully national partnerships competing head to head.

We've got good kids. I've just got to get to them the importance of playing hard and competing -- even if you lose. Go with what you know. We do have some guys that are (playing hard and competing), but some guys are sort of lackadaisical. Once we figure that out, we'll be fine.

Tim did a great job of competing and hitting his spots. He's one of those kids, you tell him what you need him to do and he comes through.

True, it was a two-and-a-half-day match, but we do not want to insult the opposition and deprive them of competing with the big boys.

We are now competing for students not only with much lower-cost state schools but with other private schools that devote more resources to scholarship aid.

We have an 8-year-old doing gymnastics, and we have a gentleman competing in swimming who is 90 years old.

Brad Smith

We can settle this lawsuit tomorrow. We can get back to ... competing in the marketplace.

Mark Zuckerberg

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

We had a little stretch there with the 100 hurdles, the 100-meter dash and the four-by-two where we made a good push in the track meet. Those kind of things spread throughout your team and then they all want to start competing a little better. There's a little momentum involved in track, too. Not everybody realizes that.

We had freshmen competing at the varsity level. We weren't concerned with wins and losses.

We've got so many cross currents competing right now, and we're in this trading range. And I think we're gonna have this volatile trading range for a while.

Scott Boras

With all of the talks he had with American and Dominican players, he got a feel for this and made the right decision. I think he understood the importance of a player of his stature competing in this event.

Joe Sakic

We expect all of the acquisitions that we made to help our club, ... I expect us to be right up there with everybody else competing for the Stanley Cup.

Joe Hall

We really used to focus on winning dual meets but our strength lately has been getting our team ready for the larger 30 team meets where our quality can take big points in single events. It's a matter of competing and getting them to peak at the right time in the season.

We named it Just For Fun because of all the rules we were having. We didn't want all those people out there competing like it was the World Series. We were raising money for the community.

That was three freshmen and a sophomore. Zach showed a lot of speed in his 100 leg of the relay, so he looks like he'll be a good competitor in the 100 for us, and could be competing for a top three spot in the long jump.

That's the vibe I'm getting from everybody -- this thing is wide open. There are some good guys competing for this job.

That's the only one that took me by surprise. We all expected him to be there. He's a regular in Cincinnati. He's not competing for a job. But you can't say anything. This is voluntary. A guy has a right to say no. But he would have been good to have on the team.

I was out there competing just as hard as I could, working without my legs. I tried to go until I couldn't go any more.

I wasn't going to die wondering why we didn't win, like we didn't win (when competing with) Brisbane or Melbourne. We needed to get our fair share of votes out of Africa.

Those middle-60 dollars will be spent probably at Target, Penney?s and Sears. They?re not competing with Meier & Frank, Chico?s or somebody like that.

We continue to see a rising demand for custom home and large-scale remodeling in Loudoun. We won't be competing with residential developers, however. Our goal is to help existing homeowners improve upon what they already have.

Jerry Sloan

We are still hanging in there, competing and finishing to the end.

We have developed and improved as the season has gone along. This is another opportunity for us, and we are looking forward to competing in the Big Ten Championship.