Competitor Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Competitor Quotes from famous persons: Brian Shaw, Bam Adebayo, Katrina Adams, Portia Doubleday, Joe Bastianich. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Competitor Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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I want to show people how to do this at an exceptional level whether they are a competitor, a CrossFit strongman or someone who just wants to do strongman workouts at home.
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I’m a competitor. I like compete.
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I’m a competitor in everything that I do. I love to compete.
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The honest truth is – and I have felt this way forever – is my largest competitor is myself. Always. I am intimidated by my own hang-ups about acting more so than anything, any part, any director.
Portia Doubleday
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Being a cook doesn’t necessarily mean you are a competitor.
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The competitor within craves to get going, to get racing.
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Who is my biggest competitor? AOL, Microsoft, and AT&TAtHome.
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I just like to win. No hard feelings, I’ll still go eat lunch with you after, but I’ll kick your butt and then have lunch with you. That’s the kind of competitor I am.
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Once you create a loyal customer base, it’s tough for a competitor to take that away.
Joe Mansueto
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Definitely, as a competitor, you want to get out there and play.
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I’ve been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.
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I wouldn’t say I’m the best player. On the competitive level, I am the best competitor. I don’t think there’s anybody like me. I play my heart out on both ends of the floor, and I give my all.
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I don’t say I’m necessarily a professional football player. I’m a competitor. That’s what was instilled in me as a young boy.
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Even though I hated being a backup as a competitor, I embraced my role and I found ways to get better on my own.
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Do I think that if Google wanted to go acquire a competitor, another big company, we should say no? Of course. We shouldn’t be approving them acquiring AT&T or Sprint or some big company.
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I’m always competitive, but if I didn’t win fair and square, I didn’t win. And I want to win if I’m genuinely better than my competitor.
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I’m always a competitor. I’m not there just to have a good time. I want to play well and perform well.
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I’m the kind of competitor where if I’m able to play, I’ve got to play.
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I am a strong competitor inside the ring, outside the ring, in the journey through life.
Dana Brooke
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I do whatever the team needs to do on offense or defense, whatever it is to win. And I’m a competitor.
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I guess being a competitor, you always have that itch. But what it is is… it’s tough.
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Ronda’s a very basic and straightforward fighter. However, she‘s a masterful competitor.
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Get your product into usershands as quickly as possible and incorporate the crowd’s feedback to iterate. Your customers will provide the data you need to chart the best course for your company and bury any competitor that goes it alone.
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Once you’re a NASCAR champion, you’re kind of in another elite division instead of just being a competitor or a race winner.
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I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.
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If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
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I can remember the first time I tried to drive into the garage of the world headquarters of Ford in a Camry. It was almost like they wouldn’t let me in. They said, ‘Why do you want to do that?’ I said, ‘Because we are going to make the best cars in the world, and we need to know everything about the competitor’s car.’
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The E.U. is terrified that we might become a competitor on its doorstep and that is exactly what we should be.
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As a competitor, you always want to go against the best, so whoever guards me, I’m hoping it’s the best defender from the other team.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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With regard to the 5G market, China is rather a competitor than a partner.
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You define yourself by either what your clients want or what you believe they’ll need for the future. So: Define yourself by your client, not your competitor.
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I was a competitor as a football player and I’m a competitor as a coach.
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I’m a competitor.
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As a competitor, I want to push myself as much as I can to be at that level that I want to be.
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As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.
Mitch Gaylord
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Google is a fierce competitor. I wish I was worth a bazillion dollars; that would be really nice. They’re a fierce competitor, and they’re very good in search. They’re very good with their global map thing.
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Monday Night Football’ is a competitor to ‘Monday Night Raw.’
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I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.
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In Kerala, three of my movies release on the same day and interestingly I am the competitor for myself there.
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It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.
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If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don’t care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.
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I’m an athlete, I’m a competitor, so whenever you have a loss, you feel it in your heart.
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I’m a competitor. I want the ball when it matters. But I came to Houston because I wanted to play with Chris Paul (a guy I’ve been close with since we were kids) and James Harden.
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I’m a competitor!
Rob Mariano
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We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.
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Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.
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At Kentucky, you have to be a competitor. If you’re not, you’re going to look weak. You’re going to look like you don’t belong.
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If they did it like they did it in ’96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they’re not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way.
Carly Patterson
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The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don’t miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.
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The thing is, I’m a competitor by nature. I like to compete.
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I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo’s election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.
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I’m a competitor. Any time you work hard and you envision something a certain way and it’s not going as you planned and you see it, you know, you go back to the drawing board and you figure it out.
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I have played against many players, but I will always consider Lee Chong Wei as my toughest competitor.
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I’m a competitor and I hate to lose.
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I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I’m aware of the landscape. I’m a competitor, so I have to know whom I’m competing with.
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As a competitor you want to be out there starting and competing.
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I’m a competitor. I like to win games. I like basketball and I like to win games.
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Old School‘ is so breezy it could be a late-night talk show, especially when Craig Kilborn, of ‘The Late Late Show,’ sidles into camera range as a particularly loathsome competitor to Mitch.
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You never know where your career will take you. A competitor in the market could suddenly become an unlikely partner. Be flexible, keep your slate clean, and stay open to unlikely collaborations.
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Although the flagship brand, Pepsi-Cola, has always been second to Coca-Cola, the Frito-Lay division is ten times larger than its largest competitor, Diamond Foods, Inc., of San Francisco. Its products take up whole aisles at Walmart.
John Seabrook
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My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.
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I’m a competitor and work hard every day.
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A lot of competitors of various Amazon businesses use AWS. We don’t view that as a problem. We very consciously want any company, competitor or not, to use our infrastructure to build their business.
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I’m a competitor.
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Once you create a loyal customer base, it’s tough for a competitor to take that away.
Joe Mansueto
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Life throws you curveballs and there are things that happen – you don’t understand why they happened at the time. But then you step back and understand you’re a better fighter and competitor because of the things that happened.
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I’m a competitor.
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As a competitor, you love that. You love having to go earn a victory.
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I do whatever the team needs to do on offense or defense, whatever it is to win. And I’m a competitor.
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My mom says I’m a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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There’s a lot of fuss that comes with playing with Tiger, big crowds, noise and such. You either let it distract you, or you tunnel up and let it energize you. He’s a great playing competitor. He recognizes good golf and he’s very complimentary when good golf is played, so he’s cool to be around.
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If you’re a competitor, you want to win. That’s enough to play for, simple as that.
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I’m a competitor, you know. I don’t want to play just to play; I want to play to win, and I wanted to win it all.
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Our biggest competitor is ourselves.
Lu Guanqiu
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I’m a competitor at the end of the day.
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You build your own strategy. You don’t define it by what another competitor is doing.
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I’m the ultimate competitor.
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Any competitor, I think, wants to be the best every time they’re out there.
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It’s the same thing as a competitor with anything whether it be a play, an injury, a distraction. You just put it behind you, you take the situation for what it is and you control what you control and the people that do that the best are usually the more successful team, person, individual, what have you.
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I am someone that is very competitive. When I’m on the field, I compete. When I’m practicing, when I’m in meetings. I’m a competitor in everything.
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I’m a competitor, and since I was 2 years old, I have always wanted to be the best at whatever I was doing.
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I think I’m a crazy competitor when it comes to basketball.
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Sammy Baugh embodied all we aspire to at the Washington Redskins. He was a competitor in everything he did and a winner. He was one of the greatest to ever play the game of football, and one of the greatest the Redskins ever had.
Daniel Snyder
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When you’re around a sport awhile and sort of get to know everybody, you start to appreciate people more instead of just seeing a number and a sponsor and a competitor.
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The reason why I got into mixed martial arts is the competition: I’m a competitor. I wouldn’t be doing this for anything else but competition. I want to take out the best.
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I have been a fan of Forty Five Ten since my first visit to Dallas in 2010, when I was working with the hometown competitor.
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How you find out who somebody is, whether or not they are a true warrior, a true competitor all the way through… is people that don’t know how to walk away or say, ‘I’m retired.’ Those are the ones that are purebred warriors. They don’t know anything else.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn’t performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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You know, I do believe that China is emerging as a competitor, not just a competitor but, in many ways, an adversary. And, you know, the Chinese model is also being held up globally as an alternative power model, and I very much believe in our model versus theirs.
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Business is a string of seemingly impossible problems looking for solutions. Each problem you solve creates a new barrier to entry for your next competitor.
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Obviously, you want to do well. As a competitor you don’t like not doing well.
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Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It’s what really interests me. I’m a competitor, but I also feel like I’m contributing, whether it’s working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.
Stephanie Cutter
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When I started running, the pain barrier was very familiar to me, and I had no problem pushing beyond the pain. When for your whole life, every single workout, you are programmed to push beyond belief, it’s really hard to just turn that off and kind of just be a social competitor.
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I feel I’m a really good competitor.
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As a competitor, you want to pitch against the elite guys and really good guys.
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There is always pressure in all matches in the World Cup. This is when you must go beyond your capacity as a competitor.
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I’m a competitor.
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As a competitor, you’re always taught that you want win championships. You want to put yourself in the best place to do that.
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As a competitor, you want to get on the field as soon as you can. But you want to do best for your team, your career and everything. That’s not up me to decide.
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As a former competitor, robot combat is near and dear to my heart. I enjoy the mix of creativity and mayhem that are essential to this sport.
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You’re only as good as your dumbest competitor.
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As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.
Tony Romo
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I come from an area where it’s mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing… I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I’m a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.
Manny Montana
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It is neither feasible nor desirable for Europe to establish itself as a geopolitical equal or competitor of the U.S.
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Just my two cents: Even as a Christian, I love boxing because it’s the ultimate stand-alone test of a competitor’s skill and will. Just two opponents, lightly gloved, and a referee ready to jump in and stop it the moment he believes one opponent can no longer defend himself.
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Hard times is not being able to get a fight. Hard times is, knowing the company, waking up one day and seeing they been sold to your competitor, not knowing what you’re going to do. Where’s my contract at? Where’s my money? Where’s my security?
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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I’ve felt that A.J. Styles has always proven that he’s a great in-ring competitor and on the television show.
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Once I get on the court – I’ve been on the court with my own brother before and tried to rip his head off, so that shows the kind of competitor I am.
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You can call it what you want: bad attitude, immature. You can say, ‘He’s a thug.’ But I’m a competitor.
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I love fighting and I love this sport, and as a competitor, I never really wanted to step away. But I have to be practical. I kind of had to think about how long I could continue to do this.
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We didn’t join YouTube until late 2008 because when we first looked at it, honestly, I viewed them as a competitor. But then it grew to the point where if you wanted to be part of the conversation, you had to be on YouTube.
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As a football player, as an athlete, as a competitor – that dream of being able to play in the Super Bowl, you’re never going to let that one go.
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When people look back at my career, I want them to see a fierce competitor, but more importantly, I want to be remembered for my consistency of character and the legacy I hope to leave through my First Things First Foundation.
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I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don’t feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
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I’m a competitor.
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My mentality as a competitor will never change.
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I want to be the best in this sport because I’m a competitor, but the real reason why is it will be the vehicle to be the family man I want to be.
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At the end of the day, Cejudo’s a tough competitor but I think he’s a flyweight.
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I’m the only person who stands in my way, whether I finish a song or if I’m, you know, struggling. So, I see myself as my own competitor.
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I’m a competitor and that’s what I love to do more than anything.
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I don’t think you can ever get bored or lose focus as a competitor.
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As a competitor, you want to be out there in the fire with your teammates.
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I’m a competitor.
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I’m a competitor in anything I do, especially boxing.
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I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.
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That’s what I think most players want to be remembered as, being a good competitor. Not being a guy who makes excuses. There are a lot of guys who make an excuse before the game why they’re not going to win. And those guys are losers.
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My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, ‘If you haven‘t actually seen a competitor’s film, don’t fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.’ Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.
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As a competitor, you always want to receive the best rewards. But you understand that it is a team sport, and you understand the better your team plays, the more you are rewarded.
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A crash is when your competitor’s program dies. When your program dies, it is an ‘idiosyncrasy’.
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As an athlete, as a competitor, any person would tell you they’re the best. I truly believe that in myself.
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The competitor in me wants to play, but it’s not my job to make that decision. That’s what the coaches are paid for.
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I have fans from every level of the fitness world, whether it’s the elite competitor or just someone living a healthy lifestyle, and it’s been my goal since day one to make sure that my brand has something to offer everyone.
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I’ve been a competitor all my life.
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Coach Spurrier was just an amazing competitor. I felt I learned to really love the competition of it all from watching him and being around him. All his assistant coaches were great recruiters, very professional in how they handled their business. So as a young guy, I got to see that all the time.
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It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.
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My biggest competitor? Myself, mentally.
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The thing about kicking is, it’s not as competitive as other positions, but I feel like I am a competitor.
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If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition was myself. There’s only so much you can do, right? There is only so much energy that one has. My focus was on how do I get the best out of myself.
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I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.
Mats Sundin
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I’m a competitor.
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I don’t know if I’d call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.
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It didn’t work out for me at Golden State, in terms of wins and losses. Still, I tried to exhibit what a competitor is all about.
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I’m a competitor.
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The Army I grew up in was focused on high-intensity conflict against a peer competitor called the Soviet Union.
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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.
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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.
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As a competitor, you want to get on the field as soon as you can. But you want to do best for your team, your career and everything. That’s not up me to decide.
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I am a competitor, and I want to win again and again.
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You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
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You need to take care of yourself first, and you can’t think of others quite as much if you want to be a successful competitor.
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Growing up, I always got ‘She’s a man,’ or ‘She plays too hard,’ or ‘There’s just no way that she can be that good because, you know, a girl can’t do that.’ And I struggle with it a little bit. I’m like: Well, am I going too hard? And then I just realized, like, I’m a competitor.
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It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
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The ultimate sports figure. The ultimate competitor. Great person. I consider him my friend. I wouldn’t be that good if I was Michael Jordan.
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Any team that’s drafting me, you’re going to get the same person. You’re going to get a competitor, a guy who’s passionate about the game and, even though I’m a rookie, a guy who will try to be a leader to the best of my ability.
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I can compete with anybody. I’m a true competitor. I’m a winner.
159
I have played against many players, but I will always consider Lee Chong Wei as my toughest competitor.
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You’re a competitor, you want to win. Especially when you have a great opportunity to win.
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I’m not a competitor by nature, and I’m certainly not used to being evaluated.
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Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.
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I’ll welcome any competitor, no problem.
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I had to experience many situations and emotions to develop, and I’m still striving to become the kind of competitor I want to be.
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If you’re not a competitor, you’ve just got to go home.
166
Now here I am almost 52 years old, it’s really easy. I’m way more at peace. But when you’re a competitor, and you’re as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.
Kirk Gibson
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I don’t have no issue with any guy. I’m a football player. I’m a competitor. When we’re in the field, we’re going to compete and be competitive. It’s not personal between none of these guys. It’s all in the game.
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I’ve played a Nintendo Wii. I don’t see it as a competitor. It’s more of an expensive niche game device. We’re selling a lot of PlayStation 3s now and it’s still the best way to buy a Blu-ray player.
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When you’re on court, you just want to win. You’re a competitor.
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I’m a sensitive person. I have a kind heart, you know, but I’m a fighter on the court and a competitor in life, so just to understand that and accept that can sometimes be really difficult.
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Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It’s not even illegal, because trash isn’t covered by data secrecy laws.
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I’m a competitor, I just love to compete, and playing video games is a way to compete and have fun with your friends.
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I’m a competitor. I had that reputation in my time at the WWE. I would walk into a locker room, start wrestling with someone, and all I’d hear is, ‘There goes Swagger again.’
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I wasn’t a competitor. I would play outside with my friends, but not really anything like ballet or soccer. I tried to play soccer, and it went badly.
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I’m a competitor. I want to be out there real bad, competing with my team.
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I’m a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.
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The biggest losers from international trade are always those whose skills have a cheaper competitor in a different market.
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I’m big. I’m strong. I’m fast. I have the hips. I have the footwork. I’m always trying to perfect my craft, and at the end of the day, I’m just a competitor.
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No matter what the circumstances are, I’ve never seen Tom Brady come out and not give it all in practice. There’s never any change in him. Whenever he’s out on the field, he’s giving it all, and he’s just such a competitor.
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I’m a competitor.
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I’m a competitor so when I need to, I just fly.