Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think it is a great thing that we've got all these guys competing for starting positions. It keeps everybody on their toes and sharp. When you are rebuilding a team like we are, you need to take a good, long look at as many players as you can to find the right combinations.

We're one of the smallest schools competing in the Division I meets, so our focus is getting as many kids as we can through to the next level.

We're now competing with eastern Europe, China, Korea, competing with Turkey and competing with places with inexpensive labor pools.

Matt Cohen

I actually love competing away. The team is all together, there are no distractions, we stay in the hotel together, we eat together and go to the gym together. It's sort of like you are invading someone else's territory.

I always had my dreams and aspirations of competing in the Olympics, but as a kid you just do it because you love to skate.

He would make an excellent lieutenant governor for all the people of Maryland. He has a knack of being able to work on issues that have many competing sides, and manages to get people to work together.

He was the type who got everything he could out of his ability. And the reason he did that was his intelligence level and a set of personal expectations that were higher than guys he was competing against.

He has become more of a man. You can see him competing with focused energy. He's going after it like every match is his last match.

Give credit to UC Davis for doing a heck of a job staying with it and competing the whole way. We were fortunate (to win).

Dave Heineman

Ultimately, we have to decide, with the Legislature: Are we willing to take some bold steps to make us even more competitive in the future, competing in a global economy? I think Nebraskans are willing to listen to that discussion. They want an opportunity for their kids and grandkids to live here.

We still need to show more patience on offense and we need to do a better job of competing on every possession.

Nick Saban

We're still competing at that position, but Gus has taken most of the reps. That's the way it is right now.

We're starting to get more excited about it. It's still a long way off, even though we're leaving today. We get to Italy on Feb. 8 and we don't start competing till Feb. 13, but (there's) the excitement of being there for the opening ceremonies, the Olympics themselves and the ambiance that goes with it.

We're seeing an influx of competition on national level with various players partnering together, ... Now we have a number of fully national partnerships competing head to head.

We've got good kids. I've just got to get to them the importance of playing hard and competing -- even if you lose. Go with what you know. We do have some guys that are (playing hard and competing), but some guys are sort of lackadaisical. Once we figure that out, we'll be fine.

We are all for people competing in whatever sport they want to compete.

Unfortunately, Nikki was competing when her health was not very good yet but still put out a good race.

We feel comfortable and have more freedom once we have runners on with the plays we can run. If we get a couple runs it's a little more assuring knowing that he's up there competing and we have faith he's going to get the job done.

We're getting more and more products that are competing in essentially the same space.

We're getting closer. They're very good, and we're not quite there. But at least we're competing with them now.

We're focusing on competing in the marketplace, not the courtroom.

We are going to keep competing and we keep getting that margin down. Duke is so talented and so deep.

We're here, we're not polar opposites, we're not competing for the hold of the city.

Alan Greenspan

There are various competing explanations, ... the extraordinary surge in technological innovation has yielded a sharply higher return in investments.

We didn't want to take any thing away from what New Orleans was doing. We didn't want New Orleans to feel like we were competing with them.

Tim Henman

When I'm not competing I try and play as much golf as time allows, and my handicap is three.

Robert Reich

Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.

We are not able to wait any longer, as it is necessary to finalize details of the competing teams,

There are three stages to the game. There's learning the game, competing and winning. We're still between learning and competing. That's just the stages of development.

Tim Lambesis

There are not as many tours competing with it. In the summer, you have all those tours competing with each other, which gets kind of hard on the wallet as a fan.

Track at North County is No. 1 on campus. But here, we are competing with more sports. It's still a goal of mind. We want to take it to another level.

Tinashe

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.

Charles Koch

Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.