Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zubin Mehta

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.

The overall quality is down, but the competition is up.

Chuck Grassley

Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?

Carl Sagan

What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.

We need to keep the competition going. We want to prove to everybody that last year wasn't a mistake. We want to prove to everybody that we deserve to win.

Jerry Angelo

We could have taken a tight end earlier. We want to create competition at that position. There will be some veteran players flushed out, with all the guys who were drafted, and we will look at those.

We just didn't obviously have enough. Obviously we weren't prepared enough to come in here and not finish fourth. That's our one goal: Relax and just not finish fourth in this competition and just get to the second day and we obviously did not do that.

While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing.

We have three infielders and a pitcher who have experience, but the rest of the team are all inexperienced. We have a great group of hard-working girls who are hungry to fill so many open positions and the competition has been great, so in that sense, youth has worked to our advantage.

We were happy with the positive results after a long time away from competition. It was a great day and we wanted to see some good times and effort, I feel like we saw both. It is a step in the right direction but there is still work to be done.

Tyler was our Saturday pitcher and did a good job in the role he was in, but he'll face a lot tougher competition this year.

We have a good mix of older and younger players. There are some kids already making improvements and that competition for two or three open varsity spots will be good.

We have come down a percentage point or so (in operating margins). That is a reflection of stronger competition.

We have been working hard all year and are hungry for some competition.

We have to match their intensity and competitiveness. We also have to minimize our mistakes and contain Brandon Rouse.

Chris Petersen

We have to have two good quarterbacks, if not more, just in terms of health and if things don't go the way they should. Competition is good.

Wages have been outpacing inflation. However, we're also seeing more layoffs this year than we did last year, so there is a lot of competition out there.

Paul Kane

I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.

We have a lot of depth on this team and that is a good problem to have. There is a lot of competition in practice each week and that will only make us stronger and more experienced down the stretch.

Gary Kemp

My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.

Microsoft's reason for establishing WISE, and its reason for hobbling WISE, was to destroy competition for its monopoly,

Microsoft is going to try to establish that there is vigorous competition in the marketplace. They're going to try to get admissions that Microsoft has less market power than is apparent, or that this venture can take away from any market power it does have.

Mexico is upside down. Everything that should have gone up -- employment, salaries, competitiveness -- has gone down. And what should have gone down -- insecurity, taxes, oil prices and electricity rates -- has gone up.

John Wallace

We invested some R140 million to develop asbestos free alternatives in response to Government's request. It was frustrating to face increased competition from importers seeking to dump global surpluses on the SA market.

Winning the championship is what we are setting out to do and we are playing Wales first up, which is great because they have got something we want. The first game of any championship is massive, not only to win the competition but also for your confidence.

We feel good about that position. And it is good we have competition there.

I think it will be the most interesting ice dance competition we will ever see.

I think Joey realizes the competition wasn't that tough. So he let up a little bit. We'll discuss that.

I thought it was a four team competition and now it's down to three,

Jimmy was amazing. After not performing well on floor on the first day of competition, he did what he needed to do on the second day in order to make the U.S. National Team.

Keith Richard

John Lennon did that, too, ... He seemed to be in competition with me over drugs, and I never really understood that.

Kyle Whittingham

Just about everyone we recruited had a BCS school (scholarship) offer. That was our competition this year. Other than in-state competition with BYU, we had very little competition with Mountain West schools. It was all BCS schools, which is a good thing.

Bruce Williams

I think this game was one of our hardest fought victories of the year. Almond's record doesn't indicate the competitiveness of their team and I'm proud of the girls for how they battled the whole game.