Competition Quotes - Page 16

• I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.

  Jake Hecht

  Sports, Long, Boxing

  Interview with Garrett Derr, bleacherreport.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!

  John D. Rockefeller

  Running, Strong, Intelligent

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• Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better.... Forget the competition and go at your own pace. Your only contest is with yourself.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Trying, Pace

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• I love the competition no matter at what age.

  Jason Kidd

  Age, Matter

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• We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.

  Desmond Tutu

  Book, Treasure, Temples

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• Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

  Mariah Nelson

  Passion, People, Perfection

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• I think it's okay to feel jealous, but it's how you deal with it that's the important thing. You have to be happy for your friends when they do well because you want them to do well. It's not a competition.

  Carrie Underwood

  Jealous, Thinking, Important

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• Dogs are quick to show their affection. They never pout, they never bear a grudge. They never run away from home when mistreated. They never complain about their food. They never gripe about the way the house is kept. They are chivalrous and courageous, ready to protect their mistress at the risk of their lives. They love children, and no matter how noisy and boisterous they are, the dog loves every minute of it. In fact, a dog is still competition for a husband. Perhaps if we husbands imitated a few of our dog's virtues, life with our family might be more amiable.

  Billy Graham

  Running, Dog, Children

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• It is a game you have to play. You have to tour your ass off. It's just always "where am I now" versus "where could I be?" It's constant competition with yourself. But I'm up for it.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Ass

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• Competition for status is a zero sum game

  Richard Layard, Baron Layard

  Zero, Games, Zero Sum Game

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• I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.

  Robert Barry

  Lost, Has Beens

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Billy Beane was a guy who had been devalued by the sport as a player and now is working as a GM for a small-market team.There is such a gulf in what these teams have to spend on talent [that] they can never play equally - they can never have a true competition.

  Brad Pitt

  Sports, Team, Player

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.

  Paul Kagame

  Rights, Groups, Needs

  "Exclusive interview: Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda". Interview with Tony Metcalf, www.metro.us. August 29, 2012.

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• It's easy to get young gay men to tickle each other, right? Let's come up with a challenge: Let's get heterosexual men. How do we do that? We make it a competition, because then it's not gay. That explains the antipathy behind the gay-journalist comment.

  David Farrier

  Gay, Men, Challenges

  "He made a movie about competitive tickling. But then things got truly weird". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. July 2, 2016.

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• Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts.

  Paul Smith

  School, Drawing, Awards

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• Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.

  Orrin Hatch

  Writing, Umpires, Justice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I love to watch football.I actually really love to watch almost any competition with a score at the end.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Football, Watches, Ends

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• My sport has transformed my body to be powerful for a specific task over years of training and competition. The more tuned for competition I am, the less "feminine" I look, and it has made me feel powerful on the track but self-conscious in the sack. That transformed for me as I let go of feminine ideals of all kinds, in work, parenting, etc.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Sports, Letting Go, Powerful

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• When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.

  Amanda Beard

  Stress, Kids, Son

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Malfunctions are inevitable. It's important to push through them during practice - versus stopping to fix and restart - so that you're prepared for one mid-competition.

  Amanda Beard

  Practice, Important, Stopping

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Playing against better competition makes you better and more focused, so you can do what you have to, to win.

  Karch Kiraly

  Winning, Can Do, Focused

  Source: www.stack.com

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• I think the most important thing when you are in a competition and you have, let's say, ingredients you have to use make something you did already because none of the judges, you know, probably had it in our lifetime, so I think do something you feel confident with, not something completely new where you are not sure how many hours or how many minutes you have to cook it or if the seasoning is right or if the combinations of spices and herbs are right.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Thinking, Judging, Important

  Source: seriesandtv.com

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• I am a fangirl of talent, so to see someone slaying the competition doing what I'd love to do, that's inspiring to me.

  Tyler Oakley

  Talent, Slaying, Fangirl

  "TheBacklot Interview: Tyler Oakley". Interview with Louis Virtel, www.newnownext.com. September 4, 2013.

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• I was 5 when I won my first song and dance competition, and my parents asked me if that is what I wanted to do, and I said, "Yeah." At 5, how can you know that? On some level, I knew that was my gift.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Song, Parent, Levels

  "LeAnn Rimes' scandal magnet days are over". Interview with Allison Stewart, www.chicagotribune.com. July 7, 2016.

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• Firms that fully embrace the needs and interests of the whole person will win today's competition for the best talent.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Winning, Needs, Today

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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