Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

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.

They want me to play running back. Wherever you go, you've got to work to be the best. Competition is good.

It was more important for us to play well. I'm excited we got to play some really good teams. We needed the competition to get ready (for the rest of the season). I want to make sure we play as hard as we can.

It was not the competition from Wal-Mart -- every new competitor splits the pie another time.

It was a good experience for our kids. It's always good to play good competition.

I've heard nothing but positives about it. Competition is good. I think it's wonderful.

No, it wasn't too frustrating. You want the competition to be safe and fair, and there isn't much we can do about this.

It was a good win, but we know we're going to be stepping up the competition here shortly. It's good to get things rolling in the right direction.

It was a good way to start the season. It is always good to see competition we do not normally see on a regular basis.

It was a good tournament for us. We could have played better, but we need to be playing competition like this.

It was a great match. Our players really rose to the occasion. They (Dear Valley) were really great competition.

It was a great indication of what state will look like. We'll give a few teams some competition.

It's the highest level of competition I've ever run against.

It's a lot of competition in a relatively small market, and it's unclear how profitable it's going to be.

Troy Perkins

It's always a competition. Every game, every week last year was a competition. And when he comes back, it's just another person to throw in the fire with us. It's always a friendly competition every week for the job on the weekend.

It makes sense not to get lost in the fog of retailers on every corner. There is so much off-price retail competition in the suburbs that they would quickly get lost.

It's going to be one of the stronger ones. It's going to be tough in all sports. The whole thing will make our teams better and the competition will be great.

It's going to be great competition. They need it for themselves to show what they can do.

It's good for us. The thing about it is, we want to play competition like that to prepare us for down the road. We want to play a schedule like that so we can make a run when the playoffs start.

It's hard to say how we fit in with this league because the competition is totally different. We've never played a lot of these teams.

We are not concerned about competition. In fact, we are the competition. We're not worried about EADS and Northrop.

Katie Ledecky

When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I'm at the Olympics with him, and it's like: 'Woah.'

We are concerned about increasing competition in the U.S. PC market from Dell.

Nancy Gibbs

Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

Joe Sakic

The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

Kip Moore

I'm treating country music like it's a sport. I'm looking at where my competition is and realized I needed to work on my songwriting.

Kim Collins

This is my future and I will take personal responsibility for making sure all competition requirements are met.

Kevin Costner

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

Paul Farmer

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

Mary J. Blige

No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

Milton Friedman

Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger....Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.

Kerri Walsh

At some point you're like, gosh, this rehab is never going to end, and then all of a sudden I'm full strength and I'm about to go to my first competition. So I feel really great.