Pedro has special qualities. He adds a lot, dribbling, scoring, keeping the pitch wide. He’s always ready to compete.
It’s very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
People also think Christians are very passive people, and that drives me crazy as an athlete because if you watch me play and compete, I’m the furthest thing from passive that you’ll see on the baseball field. I love to compete, and I love to win.
You just go out there and try to compete and try to make a play for your teammates.
I have aspirations to try and compete professionally. Any golfer that competes in tournaments would be lying if they said they didn’t.
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
I have come to see what the Tour is about, and it has been harder than I imagined. You don’t realise what it is like until you actually compete.
My childhood is more hick than I could ever possibly relate to you, and also more intellectual than you would ever expect. For instance, me and my sister, when we were little, we would compete to see who could eat the most squirrel brains.
The merit of a democratic regime rests on one’s continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.
Sometimes I get intimidated by people, intellectuals, because I don’t have a great education. The only thing I feel helps me compete with all these people, people with degrees from Harvard, that you’re thrown in with and have to work with, is that I’m grounded.
We compete with all of the time that consumers spend when they’re not sleeping, they’re not eating, not going to work or going to school. Because everything else is entertainment time.
Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.
I’m becoming a more complete player where I believe I can compete more week in, week out, especially in major championships.
You have to be ready to compete. Because lots of people dream that dream, to be the best at something. But are you ready to commit to the hard work that it takes to get there? For me, it just became a part of my life, and it was what it was. Another day, another basketball practice or another game.
I think any company should compete on the quality of their products, their prices, the novelty they can produce, their services, because that would be fair competition.
In business, what do we do? We compete.
As an actor, I felt I couldn’t compete. I wasn’t as cute as the leading man; I wasn’t as brilliant as Robin Williams.
SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.
I never expected to compete at home in a UCI women’s race – let alone as world champion.
I don’t chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.
The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
CrossFit is just another thing I’ve become passionate about. I like to continue to make gains and compete with myself. There’s many ways to do that either with adding weight or competing with my own times or my previous records. It’s been nothing but a benefit to me, and I love lifting weights.
If you can’t compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.
The big problem for atomic energy is that it can’t compete on price with the new age of cheap shale gas and, to a lesser extent, clean coal.
I’m playing in the NFL and getting to compete with these guys every single day, getting to play in the pre-season games. That’s a dream come true right there.
Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.
Sooner or later, you will see a China-based company that really has a global impact, and I think Baidu has a chance to become one of those companies. We should be able to compete on a global basis.
I’m here to compete and to keep beating people up.
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I’ve got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There’s no future in it.
I’ve competed for so many years that I can go in there and have fun and do what I love, which is fight and compete.
I just want to go out and compete. Plus the main thing is, at 55 I need a good amount of time to prepare just to make the weight cut. At 70 I can just take fights as they come and just compete as much as I want.
Every job is important because each one represents an American’s livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
We who don’t want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.
The leagues in the countries around us are probably more interesting and played at a higher level, but in general, we are happy with the way we have moved things forward with Ajax, together with Marc Overmars as technical director, to establish a squad that can compete at the highest level.
Charter schools were supposed to compete with public schools, and in turn, that competition was meant to improve education. But that wasn’t the end result.
At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.
I’m fit, but I need to get even more fit to compete with these guys every week.
John Davidson is one of the premier executives in the National Hockey League. As we continue to build a team that can consistently compete for the Stanley Cup, John’s knowledge of the game and his experience and passion for the Rangers logo make him the ideal choice to oversee our Hockey Operations department.
Anytime you get a better competition level, it’s always better for you because you want to get the best out of yourself, and you want to compete against the best.
The thing is, I’m a competitor by nature. I like to compete.
I got everything I wanted out of Texas. Obviously, you’d love to win more. You’d love to win a national championship and compete at that level. But as far as relationships and development, I couldn’t be happier.
The big difference between league football in England and Spain is that more teams compete here. In Spain, it is usually only two teams going for the title, which is not necessarily a bad thing because you get great matches between the two, but I think the English league is better for being more competitive.
It’s such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It’s hard for fiction to compete with that.
The people who talk on the edgier ‘Song Exploder’ have often made their entire record on their desktop. It’s never been easier to compete, but it’s never been harder to win, either.
If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.
I would like to see both parties aggressively compete for the women’s vote and talk about what they will do to unleash the economic power of women, to protect women’s health, to provide the right policies that provide for real family stability and real family values.
Whether we are in or out of the E.U., we must deliver reform at home in order to compete abroad in the 21st century.
You can’t compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills.
English clubs should not be pleased to go to places like Barcelona and get away without a thrashing. They should be able to compete. They have the resources.
People who were always hardbodies love that competitive style of team-sports activity: they come up with timers and fitness contests and personal bests. But for the vast majority of people, competition in exercise is not fun. It’s no fun to compete if you know you can never win.
Growing up, my parents were healthy eaters and starting to run and compete when I was 13, I knew the need to focus on what you need to eat. I remember going to grocery store myself and picking up fresh fruit and knowing early on the right foods to fuel my body.
To be able to wear your country’s colors and compete in the Paralympics for the snowboard team… it’s pretty powerful.
You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.
