In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.
Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
Carrot Top... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me.
In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.
The All-Star Game was one of my top highlights as a player. In my eye, it gave me a good idea of where I ranked among my peers. That was always my benchmark to say that I am still in the upper echelon of players.
Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control.
Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.
I like the Dakine Ryder 24L pack because it's simple, it's steezy, and it's perfect for traveling. It comes with a padded laptop sleeve and a travel pocket at the top for your passport and other things you need quick access to.
My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.
Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.
Whenever I've met with businesses that want to locate in Colorado, the state's infrastructure for moving people and products is a top concern.
I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.
I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.
When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.
Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.
Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
I wasn't raised in a household where vanity was celebrated. That just wasn't on the top of our list.
It's not that difficult to win. It's more difficult to win consistently and stay on top.
My whole act is off the top of my head.
Loretta Lynch is supremely qualified to be our nation's top cop, and she should be confirmed immediately.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list.
Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.
At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
When I got married, the idea of starting my own family was at the top of my list.
'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.
The country's top chefs, designers, media personalities and businesses are part of this dynamic city. We know that Chicagoans are used to the highest standards.
If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.
Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.
