Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Robert Reich

It is hard to bite the hands that feed you, especially when you are competing for food.

We know we are in a tough division. The three teams we're competing with have the same expectation of winning the division. That's our expectation.

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

I always had my dreams and aspirations of competing in the Olympics, but as a kid you just do it because you love to skate.

He would make an excellent lieutenant governor for all the people of Maryland. He has a knack of being able to work on issues that have many competing sides, and manages to get people to work together.

He was the type who got everything he could out of his ability. And the reason he did that was his intelligence level and a set of personal expectations that were higher than guys he was competing against.

One of the things I wanted to say to all you guys is that when you talk to the team owners about this . . . we come at it from different views. We actually have very much competing agendas.

Zach Duke

I'm approaching things the same way this spring as I did last year. I know I'm not competing for a job, but I'm always competing with myself. I'm always looking to get better, always looking to tweak things and find a way to improve.

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.

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.

Michael Collins

Either we have it or we don't find ourselves competing in the national convention market.

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.

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.

Barton Gellman

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

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.

Jerry Sloan

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

With her length, she can definitely be right there. By the time she's a senior, if she keeps working on her game and keeps improving, I could see her competing for a state title, or at least be playing on that level.

What everybody needs to understand is Sony is not competing with Microsoft. Sony's competition is with Toshiba.

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.

Lawrence Dallaglio

It's up to all of us now to make sure that England go out and play as well as we can, and I'm looking forward to competing for a place in the team.

It's up there competing with the electric bill.

As we're looking at how we're growing ... we want to diversify without competing with hotels or Bullhead City. It's more about being compatible. We really want to think about how we want to grow.