Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staff our productive economy, so that the standard of living for Americans as a whole can grow.

Conor McGregor

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

Facing better competition would have helped us for league. I think the real competition was in Santa Barbara.

Fair competition and a win-win situation is our objective.

But obviously there are venues in our competition which are not suitable for finals football, for the crowds that are likely to turn up to finals in the future.

The government was not happy with the level of competition existing in the fixed line market and some rationalization had to be done.

We've been preaching steal, steal, steal. Cedric did a nice job. He's got a quick move, and we were seeing live competition for the first time. We will get that corrected.

We've been playing tough competition and I think that's helped us.

This was a lot of fun. It was so much fun to play with such great competition.

Ronald Williams

This was a great meet for us. The competition was good. Any time you can go down south and come back victorious says a lot for your program.

This should be my last Olympic competition and I'm happy that our team has welcomed the new leader Wang. I love short track skating, so all I did for it is worthwhile.

There are always spots to be won, regardless of position. I think you can look at our lineup and see where the competition is. I think that's probably obvious, but nothing is ever etched in stone.

There are just a lot of good squads out there all over the state. There's some good competition in Kentucky.

We always tend to play up to the level of our competition and play down to the level of our competition.

When you have 31 guys out for the team there's a lot of competition because everyone wants to be in the top seven.

Jeff Lewis

We've got the talent ... but we're still young and we're still learning. I figure in another couple of weeks, we'll be swinging pretty good. We just need more experience in competition and more hard work.

With our technology, I am convinced that we will be quite advantageous in cost competition.

Without that regular competition in a week, it's hard to estimate what it's going to take for 32 minutes. We didn't give a 32-minute effort. We'll go back to work.

Tim Finchem

With the conclusion of the FedEx Cup competition at The Tour Championship the week September 10-16, we felt that the competitors could use an extra week to rest and be fully prepared for The Presidents Cup.

Joe Glenn

We need to get our new guys in there and get some competition because we're not where we need to be right now.

Bernard Tschumi

I wear the same black suit. I have five of them. I pair them with a red scarf. I was wearing a red scarf when I won the first architectural competition of my career.

We were fortunate to win the doubles point. It was a great effort by Birmingham-Southern. But after the doubles competition we played very well in singles. We are looking forward to the final match.

We were expecting the level of competition to be much higher at this meet. And it was.

While we expect solid near-term performance, we remain concerned about the potential entry of near-term competition and the long-term impact of digital downloading alternatives.

While the prices (of acquisitions) are going up, the competition is actually lessening.

We've had some pretty intense qualifying rounds. The competition is making everybody better.

We've got a big golf course here, but what we've got are 16, 17 and 18, that if you come out and play a friendly match or if we have a competition here, there can be a huge spread of scores.

We'll have two evenly matched teams and that will keep the score down. But it's good competition and we are looking forward to seeing who can step up.

Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.

We're struggling with higher energy prices and also the rise in bonds, which is providing some competition for stocks.

There is always going to be competition to be better. Last year's team was senior-driven, this year we have the numbers with 20 seniors and many underclassmen that are going to play key roles.

There is a lot of wisdom in selling off some subscribers because it just eases that regulatory question. This hastens the time when there is real competition in local phone.

Marvin Hamlisch

Up until then, I was just zooming along. At Julliard, there was real competition.