Top 100 Can't Compete Quotes
#1. We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
Garry Marshall
#2. Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, and somebody's drunk in the kitchen.
Jim Gaffigan
#3. She's buying sex toys now, you know. Sex toys for herself. Where the hell does that leave me? Have you ever seen a Vagazzler? That thing can give her an orgasm and then make her a Frappuccino. I can't compete with that. I don't know how to make a Frappuccino.
Tracy Brogan
#4. You're ruled by things I can't compete with. Your rage trumps love, and hope, and faith.
Leylah Attar
#5. Baseball really is a glorified game of throw and catch. And if you don't have guys who throw it really well, you can't compete for long.
Tucker Elliot
#6. You can't compete with Sweets' sound and time feel. It's impossible.
Miles Davis
#7. In matters of the heart, you can't compete where you don't compare.
Ashley & Jaquavis
#8. If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.
Hillary Clinton
#9. Television offers a range and scope, and a degree of creativity and daring, that the bottom-line, global-audience-obsessed, brand-driven movie industry just can't compete with.
Graydon Carter
#10. I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.
Ma Jun
#11. A private company can't compete against the resources of the second largest economy in the world.
John Carlin
#12. I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either.
David Byrne
#13. You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that.
Brandon Flowers
#14. We obviously can't compete with the big clubs trying to sign world class stars, but we've already identified some very good players and we'll see what happens.
Paul Jewell
#15. Even music can't compete with the canyons and waterfalls.
Marty Rubin
#16. I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.
Ayn Rand
#17. The only team that could have competed with us was the Cubans. It's too bad they're boycotting. The teams we're playing just can't compete with our power.
Mark McGwire
#18. The idea is to get as fit as you can and simulate things as closely as you can without getting so knocked around you can't compete.
Joshua Kench
#19. There's this misconception that comedy and music go together. They don't. Comedians can't compete with rock stars; they're just not on the same level. Rock stars will always be cooler. They will always get more girls.
Michael Ian Black
#20. The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it can't compete with the computer screen I don't think. And now we have all those screens so against all those screens I think the book can't measure up.
Philip Roth
#21. It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.
John Perry Barlow
#22. Well, you can't compete with a six foot five man in a wig.
Shemar Moore
#23. Even music can't compete with the wildflowers and waterfalls.
Marty Rubin
#24. When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality.
James Dyson
#25. Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
Jack Nicklaus
#26. I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you look at social - all of the things that online can do - TV can't compete.
Tom Freston
#28. There's so many companies that are spending so much money on 17-year-olds ... I can't compete with that. I'm not that guy anymore, they can't dress me up and roll me out there and make me look good. I am what I am!
Bob Mould
#29. I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt ... I can't compete with that stuff.
Matt Groening
#30. And all of the scientific data, statistical facts and empirical evidence can't compete with the indefinable heart's desire. For if in the end, she loves you, and she chooses you ... none of the rest of this will matter.
Ruth Clampett
#31. Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms.
Noam Chomsky
#32. Our tongues can't compete with the rapid thinking of our brains, our words come out slow and slurred. The pen is our haven. There is a lot of fear buried into that little pen. It holds all of our agony, our torment, our blood and our heaven.
Coco J. Ginger
#33. The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#34. There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.
William Golding
#35. I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.'
Lev Grossman
#36. I can't compete for likes and follows, I won't win. What I will do is pour out my heart and allow love to reach those that need it.
E'yen A. Gardner
#37. We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.
Ethan Hawke
#38. I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel.
John Malkovich
#39. If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.
Tamim Iqbal
#40. You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.
Bill Cosby
#41. We [US] can't compete with low-wage countries in different parts of the world. We cannot compete with countries that play games with currencies or regulations. We can't. We shouldn't.
Tom Wolf
#42. You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.
Jerry Seinfeld
#43. We need to remember that we can't compete endlessly with other nations that set their income taxes substantially lower than ours. They will attract jobs, and investment. They may generate more tax - and they may even persuade their tennis champs to run that extra half yard
Boris Johnson
#44. I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.
Tom Lehman
#45. In this world of endless opportunities our dreams compete. If we wait to start a journey, the destination may not be anymore what we wanted to find.
Gisela Hausmann
#46. I could not be more determined and robust about this. I want more children to play cricket and to have the chance to compete. I want them playing on the correct pitches with hard balls and proper headgear.
Tessa Jowell
#47. As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.
Nathan Meyer Rothschild
#48. You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.
Cam Newton
#49. The excitement of creating is followed by desperate self-doubt. Courage and inspiration compete with discouragement and despair.
Diana Pavlac Glyer
#50. I don't want to compare myself to anyone else, but there's Paul Smith, who I think does a great job. I feel like once I sort everything to the best quality, I'll be able to compete with them.
Rob Kardashian
#51. The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.
Arnold Palmer
#52. And that was always our plan. Do well in the first three states, and then compete and have a very strong night on Super Tuesday. I think we're ideally positioned to do exactly that.
Ted Cruz
#53. I love San Francisco; it's very hard to compete with San Francisco when it comes to availability of product, but one thing you can't replace about Las Vegas or Miami is people are walking in the door and they want to have a good time.
Michael Mina
#54. Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
Olympia Dukakis
#55. I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.
Larry Bird
#57. I love unsalted almonds, especially if I'm about to do a photo shoot or compete. There's no mess, and they're so easy to pack in a little Ziploc bag to take with you. It's my number one go-to snack!
Olivia Culpo
#58. Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.
Simon Sinek
#59. It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.
Delta Burke
#60. Sometimes when they all talk I feel like shouting, 'so your life went wrong - why assume mine will? Maybe it'll work for me!' But this would only invite a pitying smile, and a 'she'll learn' comment. You can't win with them. You can't even compete.
Kate Cann
#61. People create their own gods so that they could compete with other people's gods. It is not the humanity that fights but human gods. God war. Good war.
Aporva Kala
#62. It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.
Kit Bond
#63. I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.
Gloria Steinem
#64. Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.
Billy Tauzin
#65. When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
Paul Simon
#66. to compete. And then there is the hype. Vendors, analysts and the media talk up new technologies and trends making them sound like the 'next big thing', something that every company must adopt if it wants to stay
Ian Cox
#67. Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy .
Colin Farrell
#68. On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.
Karl Barth
#69. I like to compete. I think competition brings out the best in anybody.
Charles Tillman
#70. One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
Ed Harris
#71. If you can compete, you are going to compete
Earl Lloyd
#72. It's always been jewelry, clothes, appearance. Those are things that compete with the car. But the car is the ultimate. Get that car right and it doesn't matter what you got on or what you wear once you step out of that car.
Ice Cube
#73. The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.
Eric Schmidt
#74. Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.
Jim Thome
#75. Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.
Donald Tusk
#76. Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.
Norm Dicks
#77. Edge will be missed. It was an honor to share the ring with him, and compete against him.
Charlie Haas
#78. I want to initiate a bilateral agenda that helps Mexico and the U.S. together compete with the world better, especially with the economies of Asia and the Pacific.
Enrique Pena Nieto
#79. I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.
Timbaland
#80. When you compete, you gain more than you lose, even when you lose.
Aaron Lauritsen
#81. As humans, we have evolved to compete ... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.
Peter Diamandis
#82. I earned the right not to compete for a man.
He wants me... Or... She is welcome to him...
Virginia Alison
#83. Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet.
Will Ferrell
#84. Being right can never compete with doing well.
Henry Cloud
#85. Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.
Jack Welch
#86. I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?
Benigno Aquino III
#87. The Word of God has a supernatural edge with which a million-dollar budget can never compete.
Joseph Stowell
#88. I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently.
Peter Jackson
#89. Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#90. Neither Europe nor the United States can afford to allow Xi's grandiose vision to materialize. And so they must allow Russia to compete with China for influence in its own backyard.
Anonymous
#91. That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.
Vaclav Klaus
#92. Individuals who are obsessed with competing with themselves alone don't have time to compete with others and, most importantly, to judge others...
Assegid Habtewold
#93. I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.
Gary Barlow
#94. People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.
Chick Corea
#95. I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.
Dominique Moceanu
#96. America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.
Mark McKinnon
#97. As long as I can compete, I won't quit. Reaching three-thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#98. What happens if fully rational politicians compete for the support of irrational voters - specifically, voters with irrational beliefs about the effects of various policies? It is a recipe for mendacity.
Bryan Caplan
#99. Divisions compete for resources and sabotage each other to steal glory. Bosses pit their subordinates against one another so that no one can mount a coup.
Charles Duhigg
#100. A healthy workforce is essential to grow our state and compete in the global marketplace. These actions are important to improve the health security of Iowans by making healthcare more affordable and accessible.
Tom Vilsack
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