There are a lot of players competing for that wide attacking role, and if I’m brutally honest, if you aren’t playing regularly, you can’t get picked. I found that out, missing out on the World Cup.
I don’t believe in competing with other actors. I believe the only person you can compete is with yourself. You can only do better work compared to your earlier work.
I’m a white guy in a black sport. I really forget about it until someone asks me about it. I’m simply competing in a sport that I love.
When I was making short films for the TV show ‘Naalaya Iyakunar,’ I wasn’t just competing but making films that I could potentially show at international festivals.
I always tell people the hardest thing is competing against the guys you see every day because any of my strengths that I like to go to, they see that every day.
I like my life. I like competing, but it’s not just because of the money.
Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones – resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate.
Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they’re done competing.
Skating becomes more important to me every year. It’s obviously harder as age takes a toll on the body and the brain, and I think because of that, competing becomes much more difficult. That’s why those who stick around are always so appreciative of others’ skating because we know how much work goes into it.
Self-esteem is something I still battle. People look at me and say, ‘You’ve got fame. You’ve got admiration. You’ve done this; you’ve done that.’ As far as I’m concerned, I haven’t done anything. I’ve just fulfilled a dream of competing.
Competing is very, very important me.
You have people who are out there age 30-plus still competing on the grand stage. If I keep in shape, keep to a certain speed and turn it up when I need to, I think I will be able to get out there and run what I need to run.
To be able to get a football team that’s capable of competing for world championships, you always got to get a little bit lucky, but you got to have all phases to win it all.
I was only 18 and I’d be 22 if I was competing at London. I’m stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold.
I really don’t feel like I’m competing with nobody. Just because you the same gender and same age as someone, I don’t feel like that means you competition.
It was unbelievable: competing in my home town at a grand prix I was watching when I was three years old. It was massive and a dream come true.
I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that’s pretty fearless.
When I was competing, I trained between three and six hours a day, seven days a week.
You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you’re competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
I love competing.
I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.
I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.
I was always very clear when I took some time out to start a family that I wanted to come back and get my teeth into something and of course I could not work for Toto or a competing manufacturer.
I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.
I started competing on boxing, so I have my hands. I’m an O.K. wrestler, so why not?
The fact I’ve carved out a niche in the business and had an almost 30-year career and done well without competing at a WrestleMania is something I’m proud of. To be in a business that’s dominated by one guy and be able to do well without having to walk on that stage is great.
There is no future for the Labour party if the debate about our future becomes locked in an ideological battle between two competing visions of the past instead of building a new politics that can unite the country around a vision for the future.
I love competing. I mean, if you ask anybody around me, my coaches, they know I love competing. I hate losing.
I never thought I was going to make a career out of tennis, to be honest, until I was 10 or 11 years old. One of my earliest memories is when I was seven, and I was competing against players that were three, four years older than me. I didn’t take it too seriously at the time. I was having a lot of fun.
There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable – this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.
To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.
I welcome Microsoft having a store on Windows; what I’ve always resisted was a push to close down Windows to competing stores.
I’m competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
It’s all about competing.
There are a lot of details you have to work out when you’re talking about fighters competing twice in one night.
In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
There’s a value in used electronic equipment, and currently, there are small, domestic recyclers that process this equipment safely. But they have a hard time competing with facilities overseas that have few, if any, environmental and safety standards.
I don’t have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
Acting is a sport – especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It’s extraordinary how Globe audiences join in – it’s like competing at an event – I love it.
The peacocking nature of baseball players and athletes in general – you’re all kinda competing for who’s got the most swagger.
If you are not a Dukie, and Duke is having a lot of success year after year, you might get tired of it. They might not like your competing personality or competing persona, and if you are not a Dukie, or you don’t love Duke or Christian Laettner, then I can understand the hating on me.
There’s a lot of talented guys, but at the end of the day, you’ve got to go out there and get it. It’s really about who’s competing and who wants it more on both ends of the floor.
When I was nine, my father said ‘You can take piano lessons or do karate’ – I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19.
I enjoy battling, and I enjoy competing.
When I first began competing, brands were quite hesitant to feature disabled athletes in advertisements, perhaps due to a fear of offending consumers.
Competing helps me to polish my shape.
When I played, I just wanted to guard the best player, and I didn’t want him to score. That was just it, just competing. Along the way, it just kept building that I could be a great defender.
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today’s economy – globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
You are all mates off the pitch, but on it, you are all competing for places. I think that only makes a healthier squad – more players fighting for positions can only mean everyone has got to step their game up.
Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.
I think we’re actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.
The main thing is that everything is taped at Full Sail. It is kind of like competing on home turf every time in terms of the tapings and specials. The main roster travels, I am in Hartford for live Smackdown, then head to Edmonton and Calgary and Denver. It is travel travel travel. NXT is more stationary.
I’ve never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.
The truth is, our corporate income taxes are some of the highest in the world, and frankly, in my judgment it’s unpatriotic if you’re not for reducing the corporate income tax. We want to make it so American companies are on a more level playing field competing with companies around the world.
I think watching multi-events is much worse than competing. Especially when you have vested interests because you go through the emotional ups and downs.
I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.
I’m competing against men who are doing five quads between the short program and the long program, and I’m at three between the two programs. Who would ever imagine that three wasn’t enough for some people?
