Quotes tagged ‘Competition’

“You're all quarterbacks. And when training camp is over, there's only gonna be one starter.”

— Thomas L. Moran, Dr. Neil Melendez, Nicholas Gonzalez, imdb.com

“Sabrina: ...So then, Jenny’s dad landed on Park Place, and to pay the rent he had to borrow money from her little brother. It was super-funny. Harvey: My family can’t play board games, not since the Pictionary incident. I still can’t talk about it...”

— Jon Sherman, Harvey Kinkle, Nate Richert, imdb.com

“Ralph Kramden: Name one thing that could possibly be worse than my mother-in-law coming. Ed Norton: My mother-in-law coming! Boy, compared to her coming, the invasion of locusts was a boon to mankind! Ralph Kramden: Don't start, Norton. Don't try to compare your mother-in-law with my mother-in-law,…”

— Marvin Marx, Walter Stone, Ralph Kramden, Jackie Gleason, imdb.com

“I can't tell which version of me you like better: drugged up or crazy? I kinda think you like crazy. Less competition.”

— Jonathan Lisco, David Michod, Andrew "Pope" Cody, Shawn Hatosy, imdb.com

“The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.”

— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com

“I have plenty of competition in football. I love competition, but I'm not looking to compete in something else.”

— Bill Belichick, yahoo.com

“I want to be the best and I want to win, I don't think that's ever going to go away. Whether it's against my children, my mates, my dad. You can't let them win.”

— David Beckham, glamourmagazine.co.uk

“I just love to compete. I don't care if it's golf or Nintendo or in the classroom. I mean, competing against the other students or competing against myself. I know what I'm capable of.”

— Tiger Woods, gq.com

“I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.”

— Tiger Woods, cbsnews.com

“I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.”

— Tiger Woods, cbsnews.com

“Wake up, Spencer. The big sister act is just that, an act. And she's such a martyr with the Hastings family crap. She works so hard to be perfect because she doesn't want your parents looking beyond the glow of her halo. She doesn't want them to see you.”

— I. Marlene King, Alison DeLaurentis, Sasha Pieterse, imdb.com

“A good basketball game can have us all on the edge of our seats. Games are all about the glory, pain and the play by play. And then there are the more solitary games....The games we each play all by ourselves....The social games, the mind games, we use them to pass the time to make life more interes…”

— Blythe Robe, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“Each of you comes here today hopeful, wanting in on the game. A month ago, you were in med school being taught by doctors. Today... you are the doctors. The seven years you spend here as a surgical resident will be the best and worst of your life. You will be pushed to the breaking point. Look aroun…”

— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Richard Webber, James Pickens Jr., imdb.com

“As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don’t disrupt: avoid competition as much as possible.”

— Peter Thiel, Blake Masters, amazon.com

“All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.”

— Peter Thiel, Blake Masters, amazon.com

“Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you.”

— Mark Cuban, businessinsider.com

“I'm a competitive person. Business is a much more competitive sport than any real sport. It's 24x7x365. I'm a business adrenaline junky.”

— Mark Cuban, techcrunch.com

“I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.”

— Mark Cuban, inc.com

“There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too.”

— Francis Drake, amazon.com

“Each are trying to use their particular leverage and each has leverage with the president. Also, in order to increase their leverage with the president, they were trying to kill each other. In some nearly literal sense, kill each other. Certainly, Jared Kushner believed that Steve Bannon was leaking…”

— Michael Wolff, npr.org