Famous Quotes & Sayings

I am happy I have competition. It keeps me on my toes all the while and stops me from becoming complacent. So, it works to my advantage.

Incumbents don't like it, but political competition is a good thing. Incumbents usually outspend challengers by better than 3 to 1. Super PACs, which tend to support challengers, have nullified some of this advantage.

Tough non-district competition is what we need to play better and become more focused. When you dress out only 7 seniors, you've got to be ready to step up to the plate, regardless of the opposition.

Traditionally, we haven't scored very well in the region, but a lot of times in the past we were so much better than the competition that it didn't matter. This year, we're not as good, and the competition is better. Hopefully, with those two things, we'll get fired up and shoot a good score.

Betty Wright

I love competition because I've always run faster when somebody was running next to me.

Alexander Hamilton

Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.

Adelina Sotnikova

I want all the gold that there is out there — everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

Andy Grove

Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.

We are not concerned about competition. In fact, we are the competition. We're not worried about EADS and Northrop.

Katie Ledecky

When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I'm at the Olympics with him, and it's like: 'Woah.'

We are concerned about increasing competition in the U.S. PC market from Dell.

Nancy Gibbs

Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

Elizabeth Gillies

In middle school, I was boy crazy and it was the worst! I would always lose, too. I was more into the competition than the boy by the end of it! I just wanted to win!

Carine Roitfeld

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

Chris Moneymaker

The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.

Fantasia Barrino

I've never been in a competition before, and I said I'm going to go. I think - I just love to sing.

Amish Tripathi

I don't think I'm any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing myself?

Bill Rancic

Kitchen competition shows are so action-packed. They just get your adrenaline pumping.

Bill Rancic

I'm hooked on food competition shows. It's unique, different... I definitely understand the importance of strategy.

Anna Jameson

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Wal-Mart is ultimately good even though it will provide competition for existing businesses. But competition isn't always bad. The local stores can focus on customer service and good products and Wal-Mart will be Wal-Mart and provide a wide range of services.

Bipasha Basu

An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.

Saeb Erekat

We are really concerned. We hope that competition (to succeed him) will not be at our expense, meaning more settlements, more walls, more incursions, more assassinations, more occupation, more dictates.

Zubin Mehta

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.

Adam Smith

That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.

Adam Smith

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.

Adam Gilchrist

Whilst there's a competition still on we're still a chance,

Albert Einstein

It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

Alexander Alekhine

During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk

Albert Einstein

Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals.

We want to keep it going. This is the kind of competition that gets all of us pumped up.

We play each other for a reason. We need this kind of competition to get ready for district. They need to get ready for the playoffs.

We pretty much know who our competition is, and what to expect.