Mary Pilon Quotes

I'm undefeated in Scrabble. I can figure out an opponent's strategy and mold mine to offset theirs. I play a couple times a week, and I'll often play a game on my bed by myself against myself, which I realize sounds completely mad.

My biggest competition is me.

My biggest competitor? Myself, mentally.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're often racing against time. You're frequently running everything through your mind. You're always competing against preconceived ideas. It's not really the person next to you that you worry about.

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

I feel like my biggest competition is myself. A lot of kids get caught up in the comparing game - comparing themselves with Michael Jackson, comparing themselves with Michael Jordan. You gotta be your best. You gotta overcome your own fears.

We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.

If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition was myself. There's only so much you can do, right? There is only so much energy that one has. My focus was on how do I get the best out of myself.

Every time I perform I always kind of outdo myself.

I don't know how I have got this habit, but I try to play one match and give it my best - it doesn't matter which level of cricket I am playing in. It gives me satisfaction that I am not thinking about others, not competing with others.

I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I'm forced to be creative.

I'm only competing with myself.

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'm just fighting a lot of high-level guys. I feel everyone is trying to be tactical, everyone is trying to put their A-game out there, and I have to find a way to win. I'm all about moving on and trying to get better.

As I said, the biggest competition is myself and it will always be.

To beat Wladimir Klitschko, I have to be better than I've ever been.

In golf, you're more competing with yourself.

Anytime you get a better competition level, it's always better for you because you want to get the best out of yourself, and you want to compete against the best.

My advantage is my skill so I have to use it.

I know that I'm not the fastest or the strongest or the best in the air, so from a very early age, I had to be positionally sound, or I was going to get beat. So you just kind of learn as you grow.

In reality, I am not in competition with any other actor except myself.

I can say that I don't compete with others and only with myself because I do so many films.