To me, life is so exciting. To me, life is always trying to beat someone in something competitive. It’s kinda been my whole life.
World records aren’t broken in practice, and competitive environments and adversity are the birthplace of champions.
There just needs to be a gay rapper. He doesn’t have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay – who’s better than everybody. Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever’s the best.
I’m just super competitive. Squash, tennis, water skiing, computer games… Even if I played you at pool, I’d have to win.
My best event is Super-G. I’m competitive in all my events, but Super-G has been most consistent for me.
Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.
Our long-standing philosophy that our diverse suppliers must provide high-quality goods and services at competitive prices adds great value to our business.
People think because it’s photography it’s not worth as much, and because it’s a woman artist, you’re still not getting as much – there’s still definitely that happening. I’m still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that’s really unfair.
I’m not going to lie: I’m a competitive player. I think there’s no point playing football if you’re not competitive and you don’t want to win games.
I really like to play to squash, because it’s competitive, and I like basketball. I’m friends with a guy in L.A. called Andrew Bynum, who used to play for the L.A. Lakers NBA team. We play together sometimes.
In New York there isn’t that weird palpable competitive thing where it’s friendly but everyone isn’t trying to top one another with jokes when you’re just hanging around.
I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
I want to get good enough so I can play in Mia Hamm’s golf tournament for her foundation and have an event of my own someday. I’m so competitive, I don’t want to go and just pretend I’m a good golfer.
I’ve done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I’ve had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season.
If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.
I’m at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn’t competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I’ve gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
Having more customers means nothing if America’s small businesses cannot obtain the required capital to support their exports in the competitive international markets.
Do your analysis of energy costs. Either it comes from windmills and solar or things like nuclear and shale gas. You have to think about how you provide competitive energy for U.K. Ltd.
Actors are like magicians. They’ll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It’s very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.
I look forward to the day when China has a truly market-determined solution… To get there, you need to have a currency that is market-determined, an open capital market, and you are going to need a competitive, open financial system.
I love to get behind the wheel and get competitive.
I’m very competitive; it’s not enough just to have a few number ones. I want to have 200.
I was competitive ping-pong player. I played in youth tournaments, under the age of 13.
If you’re going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you’re going to have to be competitive in this world. And you can’t be competitive if you don’t have a good education.
I’m certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.
I was never an A student. I never really liked going to school like many of my friends. There were just too many students and too competitive. We were sort of forced into studying to go to college. It was like if we didn’t go to college, society looked at us as failures. We didn’t know what to do with the situation.
We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry – well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
I just want to be in the middle of the order, playing solid defense, playing every day, being competitive and earning that my manager, the coaching staff, the front office, my teammates have faith that I’m going to be a helpful teammate. I want to do that until the very end.
I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.
As companies become bigger, the global environment more competitive, and the rate of disruptive technological innovation ever faster, the value to shareholders of attracting the best possible CEO increases correspondingly.
I don’t feel competitive.
I want to race as long as I’m having fun, it’s competitive and healthy, and who knows when that, you know, date comes when that’s not happening anymore.
The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
I am competitive, and I like to be as competitive as possible in anything I do.
I’ve been with Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, Germany, for five years – I wanted to escape the competitive dance world and go somewhere where I felt appreciated for my talents. Stateside, it was always kind of a struggle. And the competition? Not into it.
There’s plenty of room for all sorts of movies and all sorts of comedies, so I never saw that as a competitive thing. I think there’s room in the marketplace for everything.
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.
I’m more a competitive person.
I’m so highly competitive: I just want to win.
It’s not that things won’t change – they can’t help but change. Things are becoming more and more competitive.
I take comedy very seriously, and I feel very competitive.
I won’t have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can’t see being competitive in sports any more.
U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.
Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.
Whether you’re a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, it is clear that we’ve got big problems that we need to address, starting with making our economy more competitive so that we can create more good-paying jobs for the middle class.
There are no gentlemen in anything competitive – you want to win.
If you put on your business hat, you can’t maintain competitiveness by staying at a competitive disadvantage. I mean, you just can’t. The odds are just not in your favor.
The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace.
An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It doesn’t sort of enter into our economic system because it’s a consequence of running things in a highly competitive way: the free market, global pricing and so on.
I think I can be competitive. Heck, anybody who can walk to the first tee here has a chance.
I’m a competitive type of person, whether it’s playing a game of basketball or playing business games.
I’m freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness.
Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they’re good.
Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade – and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.
