Competition Risk Quotes

Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.

I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.

I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.

I think one of the important things around tournaments and qualifying tournaments is the jeopardy around it.

The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without having to bother about improving their products or services. It's amazing how fast they found their markets disappearing.

No one is guaranteed their place in the squad.

People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children-unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.

At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.

Android has been managed essentially to make it a profitless prosperity. Right now, if Google is not careful, Android will be Samsung or Samsung will be Android.

There's no guarantee of winning, even if you are the best players and the best team.

These days, men's singles is very hard. If you lose the first, you might lose everything.

Most of the time, you don't win anything on reality shows. You're booted off, or maybe you win $50,000, or $100,000, which isn't really life-changing. I don't know that it's worth it.

One tournament can change everything for you. You never know when that tournament might be.

There's a lot of big fights potentially out there for me, but none of them are possible if I slip up against N'Dam.

The best boxers don't always qualify for the Olympics. You can easily have a bad day, but please God, that won't happen to me.

It's what counts, isn't it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it's nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It's a much bigger problem.

In one-day cricket, we should not think that we can win easily against any team. There have been examples when big teams have lost to small sides.