Nigel Dennis Quotes

Challengers do not have a level playing field.

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, “you are free to compete with all the others”, and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through the those gates.

How I'd like to start a new life in a distant land. Not because of racism or politics. But to be in a place that I knew hardly anything about, in a place where I wouldn't even care to know the prime minister's name. A place where names and faces would have no meaning for me.

I'm homesick everywhere I go, but England has a negative effect on my spirit to a profound degree. That trip from Heathrow into London is worse than the flight over there. It's just so grey, and I'm not a pub person, and the traffic in London gives me a heart attack. It's not a comforting place, on any level, to me.

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

If you need a tax credit to compete, you are probably not that competitive.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

If you put on your business hat, you can't maintain competitiveness by staying at a competitive disadvantage. I mean, you just can't. The odds are just not in your favor.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Equalising performance between teams runs completely counter to the idea of F1 and would be very unfair for us.

I don't feel like we have to be dirty or anything crazy, but as far as competing, there's no limits.

If I'm hitting 3-wood and everyone else is hitting driver, it's a level playing field. If I'm hitting driver straight, then I think I'm playing at a different level than everybody else.

Maputo is a difficult place to play.

When you get to the big leagues, the talent pool is on such a level playing field, you have to find a way to separate yourself from incredibly talented guys. Especially when you go through the injuries that I've had, you come back, and you might not physically be able to do some of the things you used to do.

Especially with the ladies' game, I have proved we can compete with all these men.

Everything is different when you're not in the starting position.

We're a small country, and if you look at it that way, then we're at a disadvantage, though I know that most of the players who know or have come up against Uruguayans prefer to avoid us.

I'm all for competition; competition is good. I just want to make sure the playing field is level.

In the Olympics, everything goes back to square one. The world champion or the world record holder or the ninth last year are fighting for the same medal, and you have got to go there like it was the first time.

It doesn't matter who you play - you can win against anyone; you can lose against anyone.

Sometimes it's difficult to win even if you are the best team. If you're not, it's more difficult.

You only get half a chance sometimes against these big boys in the Premier League.

We're really greedy when it comes to titles. We want every championship - the women's title included.

I looked around and saw my competitors: they're all doing these quads, and at the same time, they're a head shorter than me, they're 10 years younger than me, and they're the size of one of my legs.

I do not have a competitive advantage when fighting another woman.