Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lance Berkman

It's night and day. We have very few of the same personnel. We don't have too many established guys, but I think we've got guys that are gritty and compete well with the bat.

Any time you compete in a league like the ACC, that's a tremendous challenge. But Georgia Tech is an institution with a history of being competitive and doing well. I see no reason why that can't continue to happen.

Any time you really get whipped by an opponent, you have extra motivation to go out and prove not only that you can compete with them, but you can actually pull out a victory,

She'll pick up where she's been. She knows what it is to be a leader. She's ready to compete and definitely ready to go.

Skating will always be a part of my life whether I am skating to compete or skating for recreation.

Lyle Overbay

That's expected, they've always been up top. That's fine. It matters where we finish. That's all that matters. We've got a team that can compete with them and do that. It's just a matter of going out and doing it.

The kids played hard and haven't quit. If we play the way we did in the first half, we can compete with anybody. Their second five showed no drop off from their first five, and they wore us down. There's not much you can do with the numbers they have versus the numbers we have.

The kids held themselves responsible for not making the playoffs last year, and that gave us an opportunity to compete for the tournament championship. They took it upon themselves to make sure they got better.

David Williams

That had to happen, especially the way La Cueva handled us so easily last season, ... It's easy for kids to say that they can compete with any team around, but to go out there and make it happen is a different story. We did that.

That is what I really want. It would mean so much to me, and to compete at that level would be amazing.

It's impossible to compete on price with the loss leaders at department stores or electronic stores. You'd be crazy to do that.

It's important to compete with other schools that are better. You get better and you learn that there's more out there.

It's completely fair. There's a 12-day window, and you can compete every day to try and get points. If you have the most points in the previous 12 days (of practices and matches), you get to play. That's the way it should be.

It's been very difficult to strategize with Michelle because I haven't seen her compete but one time, and that wasn't a legitimate competition.

It's probably more gratifying to them because of what they've been through, not that it's been their fault. I'm sure it was frustrating for them to go year after year and not be able to compete in the playoffs.

It's unpredictable. They compete on snow and ice and anything can happen. But we feel good about it.

Stephen Jackson

Considering everything we are going through right now, we needed this game. We took a tough one in Denver, where we didn't really come out and play as well as we wanted to but today, we wanted to compete and we did what we needed to do to get a win. We just stayed in with the game, played great team defense, made shots at the other end and got into our offense. We were able to get the shots we wanted.

Shane Battier

The novelty isn't there. We have a team that's been assembled that's expected to compete for a playoff position. That's OK. It makes you have a workman-like attitude, and you go out and win games you're supposed to win. I'm very proud of this season.

The notion is not that if you're a monopoly, you compete less vigorously or with more deference to your competitors, ... The interest in antitrust law is for the protection of consumers, not individual competitors.

Then we had six 15-minute rounds, and after each round one competitor was eliminated until three of us were left to compete in the final.

Even with the opportunities Franklin had, we still had the opportunity to win the game. We were right there with one of the better teams in the conference. ... The team as whole is understanding what it takes to play at next level, at tournament time. Obviously you want to win, but it's good to know that you can compete with them.

Pat Summitt

It's all recruiting. Not just a Duke or North Carolina. You've got Maryland in the mix. The people at the top have forced everyone else to elevate their intensity and recruiting, and that enhances their opportunity to compete at a different level.

Claudia Schiffer

It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.

For customers in Richmond, it's very important to know we haven't canceled service from LaGuardia. Delta will continue to compete vigorously in the New York market.

It's not the greatest thing in the world to go 4-6 like we did. But it's not the end of the world, either, when you compete like we have.

Amy Cuddy

It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.

Jay Haas

I'm not real excited about my game right now. I can't be less than 100 percent for me to compete out here.

I'm going to go out there and compete like I always do, but at the same time I'm going to use it to develop speed for the first lap of my 1,500. I think that's a good thing. I think it's going to help me, so I'm happy Bart talked me into it.

I'm not going to stress out over it and I'm not going to put more emphasis on wins or losses. I'm just going to focus on getting the team prepared to compete at the highest level they can.

Mark Dantonio

I'm not going to walk out of here with my head down. I'm not looking for moral victories. I'm just looking for guys who will play with toughness and will compete and I think we did that. Maybe (Penn State) thought we were going to go in the bag, but I was going to keep playing.

I'm excited to compete on TV in front of an audience. This will take video gaming to the next level.

Erik Guay

I'm really disappointed. I've been training for so long and just for that, and not to be able to compete is really frustrating. ... There's no way I would make it. I would have to ski on one leg pretty much.

I just want to be comfortable with our 'physical' level. I want to know we are physical enough to compete at the highest level.