Competition Quotes - Page 36

• The whole point of team competition is to pick your teammates up.

  Andy Roddick

  Team, Whole, Picks

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• I'm going to crush my competition and I'm going to enjoy doing it.

  Omarosa Manigault

  Crush, Enjoy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We know that Barca is playing at a high level and has a great possibility to win the competition, but I hope they do not have the luck of winning the title

  Gonzalo Higuain

  Winning, Luck, Levels

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• The decision on the right balance between competition and investment can no longer be solely a national issue.

  Viviane Reding

  Issues, Decision, Balance

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• For my first pretty big international competition and the Olympics, I think I did pretty well. Medals aren't everything. It's all about you going out there and having a good time. I feel proud of myself.

  Kimmie Meissner

  Thinking, Going Out, Proud

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• You can look in every direction and find a competition or an event going on. Even if you're not involved in playing one of the sports being offered, you can find anything you want to do. There's shopping, entertainment, all different types of people ... it's really a great atmosphere.

  Dawn Staley

  Sports, Shopping, People

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• Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.

  Aliko Dangote

  Entrepreneur, Healthy, Toes

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• For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.

  Edith Grossman

  Disappointment, Athlete, Adventure

  Edith Grossman (2010). “Why Translation Matters”, p.26, Yale University Press

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• I love the training, love the competition, and I still feel like I'm progressing and getting better as a fighter.

  Randy Couture

  Training, Get Better, Progress

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• The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional.

  Kevin Garnett

  Pride, Thinking, Years

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• It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring

  Ed Mayo

  Business, Caring, Greed

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• Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

  John Ruskin

  Success, Real, Law

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• Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Animal, Gambling

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.40

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• People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  People, Expectations, Accountability

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• When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Fear, Giving

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• I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Inspirational, Basketball, Life Is

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• Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Blessing, Play, Boredom

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• But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Dream, Hero

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• I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

  Nate Silver

  Baseball, Data, Lows

  "Nate Silver: it's the numbers, stupid". Interview With Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Just think about the customer.

  Mike McCue

  Business, Thinking, Faces

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• If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income.

  Jay Abraham

  Success, Marketing, Income

  Jay Abraham (2000). “Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition”, p.14, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

  Betty Friedan

  Husband, Home, Son

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Baseball, War, Names

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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  Zadie Smith

  Book, Writing, Ambition

  "White knuckle ride". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2000.

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• To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Deception, Tasks, Investing

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