It is more important to engage the public positively with choice and competition to everyone than to be directed into a benefit for a minority.
You can’t control what the other athlete is going to do; you can’t control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.
My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there’s a video of it, too. I’m just, like, stick straight. I’m not moving at all, and I’m just singing.
I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they’re competing on. If we’re competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it’s likely that both of us will become better, but it’s also quite possible we’ll lose sight of what’s truly valuable.
Music is not a contest, it’s not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid.
‘The Great British Bake Off’ has brought baking to the nation, and we’ve seen people from all walks of life and backgrounds experience the highs and lows of competition and, more importantly, helping each other.
Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.
As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.
I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It’s a totally subjective thing.
We in the NFL unquestionably are in sports and competition, but we’re also in entertainment, and that’s the entertainment capital of the world. It just bowls you over when you see the opportunity in L.A.
We got to know the competition very well. In the ’50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing.
We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It’s reality check time.
I think tag team wrestling is every bit as exciting, if not more exciting than singles competition.
Competition and competitive rhetoric can be healthy. It’s what drove the United States to pursue the Soviet Union into space, creating countless innovations along the way.
We cannot let the competition beat us on price.
Competition is good for consumers. It provides more choices at better prices.
There used to be three networks, and now there are 40 million networks. There’s a lot more competition out there, too. We would bring in 27 million people. Now, they’re lucky if they have 17. I looked at the ratings, for the first time in 25 years, just to see, and there were 130 shows on. There used to be maybe 30.
I think now I’ll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.
A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don’t think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.
Arizona was the best place. I like the competition in baseball, and the football program has been great for the past five years. I think I’ll be playing as a freshman in both sports, and I think I can play with them.
The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.
I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.
If you live in a yard sale kind of neighborhood – in good weather, most neighborhoods are crawling with them on weekends – do a sweep to see what the competition is charging. No one is going to buy your $7 book if they can get it down the block for $1.
If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes of cash from town chairs in Durham and precinct captains in Waterloo.
I don’t see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we’ve been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.
Kitchen competition shows are so action-packed. They just get your adrenaline pumping.
As humans, we have evolved to compete… it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.
I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.
There’s competition everywhere.
A company’s best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.
One of the things we recognized coming out of 2015 is we had to get more and more high-level competition.
Monopolies are bad because people get bad service for high prices. Competition is good because people get good service for competitive prices.
Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.
Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido.
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
The lack of portability and competition has long been a problem in America’s insurance market, yet Obamacare took no significant steps to open up the market between state lines.
I love competition because I’ve always run faster when somebody was running next to me.
In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service. The simple reason, according to the 176-page study: lack of competition in the market. The culprit: local governments.
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron’s invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
I agree with Klopp, the Nations League is a ridiculous competition. There is no sense in playing these games. It’s not a real competition that you have to win. You can call these games whatever you want, but the fact is they are friendly games!
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.
The Vancouver Olympics was the first competition where I completed the short and free programs without any mistakes, and that in itself was a huge achievement.
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
I don’t think I’m any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing myself?
The level of competition on ‘Iron Chef’ was very intense. In fact, I feel like the show provides chefs with a stamp of approval and in many ways lets them know that ‘they’ve arrived.’ It was a tough journey, to say the least, but in the end, it provided me with an example how hard work and persistence pays off.
There’s always competition out there. That’s what makes life exciting.
There’s a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it’s interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it’s totally different. It’s based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.
As soon as I hear the word ‘competition’ I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.
My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.
Love is a competition. If you don’t think so, then you’re crazy, because why are you dressing up, why are you wearing those heels, why are you wearing that $400 perfume? Why are you shaving your chest and eating 40,000 egg whites?
In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.
I think competition always produces better results than a monopoly.
Incumbents have long promoted regulation in the name of protecting consumers when their actual goal is to block new entrants and stifle competition.
I’m a prideful person when it comes to competition.
When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you’re all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that’s what counts.
