Competitors Quotes - Page 2

• Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.

  Hal Sutton

  Sports, Morning, Knowing

  Interview, www.rydercup.com. September 18, 2004.

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• I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Couple, Thinking

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• Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

  Edward Hoagland

  Sports, Men, Competition

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.33, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Expectations, Sides, Exit

  "Interview: Dell's Rollins lays out a road map, from services to AMD". Interview with Tom Sullivan, www.infoworld.com. November 12, 2004.

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• So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Criticism, Made

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• Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Conversation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.144, Harvard University Press

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• I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.

  Shannon Miller

  Running, Race, Going Out

  Interview with Peter Gambaccini, www.runnersworld.com. October 23, 2006.

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• Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

  Zhu Rongji

  United States, Partners, China

  "Bush yet to accept Beijing invitation". www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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• When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

  Bill Bradley

  Inspirational, Sports, Hard Work

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• The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Running, Race

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• We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.

  Paulo Coelho

  Trust, Fake Friends, Believe

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• When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!

  Susan Polgar

  Funny, Women, Humorous

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• I always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending.

  Marcelo Garcia

  Inspirational, Sports, Thinking

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• You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

  Inge Lehmann

  Men, Ignorant People, Incompetence

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• If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.

  Jeff Bezos

  Educational, Stay Focused, Customer Satisfaction

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• There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

  James Cash Penney

  Fairs, Merchants

  James Cash Penney (1960). “View from the Ninth Decade: Jottings from a Merchant's Daybook”

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• Listen to your customers, not your competitors.

  Joel Spolsky

  Motivational, Business, Customers

  Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.336, Apress

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• If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Home, Ifs

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• You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Men, Competition, Want

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.24, e-artnow

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• A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

  Nancy Lopez

  Giving Up, Pride, Winning

  Nancy Lopez (2000). “The Complete Golfer”, Galahad Books

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• I'm a spreadsheet guy. But you get to that moment of truth, and it has nothing to do with a spreadsheet. You've got to factor in what your competitors are doing, what the technology is doing, what your shareholders want, what your employees want, what your customers want, and you've got to make it happen sometimes.

  Brian Roberts

  Technology, Guy, Want

  Source: usatoday30.usatoday.com

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• The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

  Arie de Geus

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

  "Planning as Learning". hbr.org. March 1988.

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• I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Believe, Men

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 10, 2013

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• One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

  Edwin Moses

  Competition, Beats, Majors

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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• By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills.

  Melissa Bean

  Choices, Competition, Bills

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