Compete Level Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Like anybody else, athletes like to pig out on a bit of junk food every now and then, but they also know that they couldn't do that all the time if they wanted to keep their body in peak condition to compete at the highest level.

William Katt

#3. And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

Jason Statham

#4. You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

T. Boone Pickens

#5. If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?

Warren Farrell

#6. I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

Axl Rose

#7. In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets.

Jay Samit

#8. When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

Henry Flynt

#9. If all goes well and my body reacts well, and I feel I have a good high level to compete amongst the best then I'll come back and play.

Mary Pierce

#10. I want to enjoy myself and enjoy the challenge. I love to compete at the top level of NASCAR. I love my job. I love what I do. I'm very fortunate that God has given me the strength and the courage and the people around me to help me do what I do.

David Ragan

#11. In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

Kenny Marchant

#12. 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.

Dominique Wilkins

#13. I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.

Pico Iyer

#14. I think we've put ourselves in a position that if we can go into the Big East and compete at the level that we aspire to compete at, we'll get out of this what we want.

Andy Kennedy

#15. We're about getting all the people who want to compete with Samsung to be able to build devices. So we're kind of down at the guts level saying, 'Hey, we can give you the hardware, the sensor platform, the software you need to go build your own one.'

Renee James

#16. After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.

Carl Lewis

#17. I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.

Larry Bird

#18. It's the nature of it. The players will want to compete at the highest level they possibly can.

Brendan Rodgers

#19. You feel the Olympics and you get chills and nervous and a little scared. You go through the emotional roller coaster at what it's like to compete at the Olympic level and you let that run through your whole body.

Bode Miller

#20. My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at top level again.

Thomas Muster

#21. When I signed this past summer, Lou Lamoriello, Jacques Lemaire, and I agreed that if we were unable to find a suitable fit in which I would be able to compete and contribute at the level I expect from myself, then I would simply step aside.

Brendan Shanahan

#22. When it is fair, American workers can compete and win. I cannot support the TPP in its current form because it doesn't provide that level playing field.

Rob Portman

#23. Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Martin Jacques

#24. There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side.

Sebastian Coe

#25. When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

Bill Paxton

#26. It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on our honeymoon. I hit .397 and led the Mexican League with 20 home runs and was named the MVP of the league. It's when I realized I could compete with anyone at any level.

Monte Irvin

#27. The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.

Greg Norman

#28. I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

Jodie Foster

#29. It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

Paula Radcliffe

#30. In the real world of competition, the players want to compete and they want to compete at the very highest level.

Vince McMahon

#31. I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby.

Talib Kweli

#32. 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