#competitor

The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him. ↗

— Pancho Gonzales

#because #champions #competitor #competitors #dislike

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

#because #better #channel #competitor #criticism

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this. ↗

— John Harsanyi

#chess #competitors #decades #games #haven

Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#business #businesses #competitors #costs #doing

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#ever #made #none #our #run

Now if you go exactly where your competitors are, you're dead. ↗

— Thorstein Heins

#dead #exactly #go #now #where

I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#competitors #could #doing #i #looked

Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice. ↗

— Sarah Hughes

#competition #competitor #down #ice #just

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem. ↗

— Brit Hume

#believe #believed #comes #competitors #kind

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. ↗

— Brit Hume

#already #away #because #big #big difference