Top 39 Trying To Compete Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. The last sort of really low-key race I ran, I realized with about a hundred metres to go, that my heart just wasn't in it. I wasn't trying my hardest, I didn't care to compete against the girls I was up against. That spoke a lot about where my heart was taking me-which was off the track.
Cathy Freeman
#4. I'm not trying to compete with any other revival soul acts. It's just Leon Bridges, a kid from Fort Worth trying to be himself and give people hope. It's great music to dance to and just love.
Leon Bridges
#5. On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.
Tim Tebow
#6. You know, when you're trying to get better at golf, you're always measuring your game up against other people to see what you've got to do to get better and to see if you can compete with them.
Lucas Black
#7. I always try to keep in mind the I do all that training for a reason, which is to compete to the best of my ability.
Alistair Brownlee
#8. I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#9. How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
Charlie Munger
#10. It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.
Gillian Flynn
#11. Trying to be the best. Failing. Getting back up. Those characteristics are going to allow you to make great decisions. They are going to allow you to compete. They are going to allow you to achieve your best. That's the American dream.
Ronnie Lott
#12. If I go down, it's never easy. At least my opponent knows they have to go to the end of the earth to take me out no matter what the circumstances. I do try to compete. Even if it's not your best day, I just try to walk off the court knowing I gave 100,000 percent.
Venus Williams
#13. 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
#14. The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That's motivation enough for me to go out there and play well.
Kobe Bryant
#15. It's entirely ridiculous and hopeless to try to compete with somebody who made such a huge contribution to photography ... I knew when I went into photography that I would be compared to my mother. I thought to myself, what can I do about that?
Amy Arbus
#16. I just started training with the best fighters in the world trying to get better. I was a pretty good athlete so I did pretty well with the team and that gave me confidence that I would be able to compete with people.
Robbie Lawler
#17. Trying to get more learning out of the present system is like trying to get the Pony Express to compete with the telegraph by breeding faster ponies.
Edward Fiske
#18. the best way to enhance one's beauty was to let it shine through on its own, rather than trying to compete with a bunch of shiny bobbles or overdone fripperies.
Kelly Boyce
#19. Don't wear yourself out trying to compete with others. You were uniquely designed by God to do great things with the talents He blessed you with. Celebrate who you are and keep working hard to become a better you!
Theresa Lewis
#20. It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.
Michael Jackson
#21. I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.
Sri Chinmoy
#22. Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
Joan Baez
#23. Differentiate your products, provide great service and don't even think about trying to compete with Wal-Mart on Price.
Michael Bergdahl
#24. 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
#25. Any company trying to compete ... must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.
Jack Welch
#26. I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
Eddie Money
#27. I try to focus and compete and do positive things for the sport.
Usain Bolt
#28. In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.
Kathy Sierra
#29. Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.
Herbie Hancock
#30. How do you do something where you're able to be specific and edgy enough to compete with what the cable networks are doing and, at the same time, appeal to a broader audience? That's the line that everyone in network television is trying to tread.
Jason Katims
#31. We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
Oscar Robertson
#32. My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.
Elisabeth Shue
#33. I'm not trying to set the bar high. We're just trying to compete. We want to grind. This is what we do.
Russ Rose
#34. The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.
Carl David Anderson
#35. You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.
Jenna Elfman
#36. I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
Michael Caine
#37. My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.
Georg Brandes
#38. I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.
Reggie Bush
#39. When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum roles, especially in television. We have a smaller market place, vastly fewer drama-producing networks, and they seem to compete for the same established names for those projects.
Jamie Bamber
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