Any competitor would be frustrated in that moment... but it certainly made sense what Coach Kubiak did for the playoff run. I got replaced by Peyton Manning... I think we all know who is going to play in the game.
As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.
I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.
The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.
If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.
My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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.
I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.
I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.
Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
'Old School' is so breezy it could be a late-night talk show, especially when Craig Kilborn, of 'The Late Late Show,' sidles into camera range as a particularly loathsome competitor to Mitch.
As a competitor, you want to be out there in the fire with your teammates.
Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.
I'm always a competitor. I'm not there just to have a good time. I want to play well and perform well.
Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
The competitor in me wants to play, but it's not my job to make that decision. That's what the coaches are paid for.
I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
Being a cook doesn't necessarily mean you are a competitor.
I'm a dominant competitor.
I have never considered any player as my competitor; each one of them is good and talented, and my job is to beat them.
I always say my biggest competitor is myself because, whenever I step out there on the mat, I'm competing against myself to prove that I can do this and that I am very well trained, prepared for it.
I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.
It's hard not to take it personally when being wait-listed, passed over for a promotion, or losing a client to a competitor. But while feeling aggrieved may be an understandable reaction, it's not productive - it's not a good use of the experience.
As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.
I loved playing against the Pacers and Reggie Miller. Reggie was a great competitor, and I enjoyed playing against competitors.
I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.
I'm a competitor. Gym work can be tough. But you just try to get through it.
I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.
My biggest competitor? Myself, mentally.
I can honestly say that I never 'enjoyed' our meetings, but the respect I have for Peyton Manning as a competitor was, and will likely remain, second to none.
I'm a competitor.
When you think about it, if the fittest always won, all forests should be completely homogeneous. One species should supplant all others as the most superior competitor. But it doesn't happen that way. Nor does it happen that way in the marketplace.
If you're a competitor, you want to win. That's enough to play for, simple as that.
When I started running, the pain barrier was very familiar to me, and I had no problem pushing beyond the pain. When for your whole life, every single workout, you are programmed to push beyond belief, it's really hard to just turn that off and kind of just be a social competitor.
My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.
'Monday Night Football' is a competitor to 'Monday Night Raw.'