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We've spent more time competing against each other, focusing on mental skills. I want them to turn frustration into determination.

We've seen great improvement out of Clint this year. He's a player who is competing for a spot on the World Cup roster and I think he demonstrated he's progressed a lot.

The fact is that right now, they probably are 30 points better than we are. Their program is at one stage and ours is at another. We're trying to start going in the right direction and they have a good team that is competing in a tough conference. It was just a case of playing them at a bad time for us.

The court was playing pretty fast, it almost felt like playing tennis with golf balls out there. But I am feeling fine physically. I think need a few more matches before I can start competing better.

There is better confidence in Asia. Corporate profitability is improving, unemployment is falling, wages are rising, interest rates are low, and there's a willingness to buy into assets. People are getting their money out of saving and into assets; otherwise they're competing with inflation.

When I'm not competing I try and play as much golf as time allows, and my handicap is three.

What we cannot have is grandparents competing with grandchildren for state resources.

We have had some tough battles with Traverse City this season. Competing in a playoff environment will continue to challenge our guys and prove to be great experience in the development of our players.

We're looking forward to the challenge of competing at state. Our guys have risen to the challenge the last few weeks. It's going to be exciting to see how we do.

We're here, we're not polar opposites, we're not competing for the hold of the city.

There are various competing explanations, ... the extraordinary surge in technological innovation has yielded a sharply higher return in investments.

If you are competing with slaves, then you are a slave yourself.

We met with the six returning players from last year and in those meetings my staff and I went over what each of them needs to do to improve their skills and help the team, ... With the improvements that all the returning players have made by spending the summer on campus and working in the weight room, in conditioning and on their skills, we have a chance to be right where we were last year and that is competing for an NCAA Tournament spot.

We were competing against schools from Maryland and Delaware, and there was a separate division for D.C..

There are tremendous dollars in the wind power industry but now a great majority of investors are looking at the solar industry to achieve a higher rate of return. There's way too much money chasing wind projects so that investors are now competing over wind projects. A lot of them have already raised funds and want to place them in a tax advantaged way.

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

We're competing really hard. At the beginning of the year it seems we were getting blown out a lot. Now we're in every game. We know that we can win every game. It's just a matter of finishing off strong.

We're competing now. (The seniors) are trying to set the bar as high as we can,

We're competing in an Australian league and we have to cross the Tasman every second game, it's as simple as that.

We're competing in a market where teachers can get better salaries by going elsewhere.

We're competing for the MAC title. We believe we can beat anyone in the country, but we can also lose to anyone in the country.

We're competing for the MAC title, ... We believe we can beat anyone in the country, but we can also lose to anyone in the country.

We're competing for dollars now that we weren't before.

We're competing a little harder. And the guys who aren't competing aren't going to play.

We're competing against every team in the conference. We're just not finishing. Our kids played hard, but (the Falcons) are well-coached.

We know we are in a tough division. The three teams we're competing with have the same expectation of winning the division. That's our expectation.

Macquarie prides itself on its entrepreneurial spirit. Macquarie in effect is run as a series of competing businesses. At times the management encourages different teams to compete for the same assets. They see it as healthy.

Let there be no misunderstanding of our intention, ... Vanderbilt is committed to competing at the highest levels in the Southeastern Conference and the NCAA, but we intend on competing consistent with the values of a world-class university.

Many, many companies have failed, competing with or selling to the Bells.

Many top athletes are competing in the March 2 World Cross- Country Championship. Once they've completed that event they'll plan their racing schedules for the year.

Secondary airports take years to become successful. You're competing in a world economy with expectations that there will be an airport close to the major business and population center.

So if you play that out, it's going to be a long time before we can bring a competing option to consumers and break the cable monopoly.

She's competing a little harder and taking it little more serious than last year. She's doing a nice job.

She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics.

She's never really done pageant work until she started modeling. It gave her confidence and she started competing and winning.

Somebody has to step up and win a job. Right now they're not trying to win a job. They're competing to lose a job. That's not what they are trying to do, but somebody has to step up and want the job.

She has shown some great senior savvy in stepping into the infield and will be competing with and pushing Mia.

Sitting in their dugout for three years, I think I've come up with a scouting report. But I'll still treat it like a regular start. When you're between the lines, it's not about (facing your old team). It's about competing - and hopefully getting a win.

She really wants to compete. I would say her chances of competing tomorrow are 90 percent.

Minneapolis-St. Paul is competing for a very mobile group of people who have the world for their choices.

My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room for mistakes when you're competing against the sun for a person's attention.

One of the things I wanted to say to all you guys is that when you talk to the team owners about this . . . we come at it from different views. We actually have very much competing agendas.

One big advantage to Penn is that it is the Big 5 and how special and unique Big 5 affiliation is. There is nothing like it in the country, so in addition to coaching at an institution such as Penn and playing and competing in the Ivy League, you always have an opportunity to compete and play against Big 5 institutions and be a part of a very special tradition of basketball.

Obviously, we're competing against a city's hockey team. We're offering a project that is the redevelopment of a neighborhood, which is much different in scope than a new arena with a casino.

Obviously we'll be competing against the Marlins, we'll be competing against the Heat and the college teams,

Of course I'm for Turkey joining the EU. But it's too simple to say that will make us all well-off and solve all our problems. Since the referendums in France and the Netherlands, Europe is preoccupied with itself. Various ideas are competing with one another about the character of the Union. Will Europe define itself exclusively through the past ? This is a conservative view and can ultimately be reduced to discussions on agricultural policy and the distribution of funds. This is always the case with short-term politics. But in the long term Europe needs an all-encompassing vision of itself and for that reason I recommend that Turkey joins.

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My first event was the 100-meter freestyle, the top event of the meet, competing against the best in the nation, over 100 swimmers.

More and more pro teams are realizing the value of having a development squad, and we provide the perfect event for these young riders not only to have a taste of being a team leader, but also to get the feeling of competing in a proper road stage race.

(Morgan) helped me with my math homework. I also asked her some things about golf. She said she was missing the first month of school competing in tournaments. I congratulated her on the U.S. Open and she said the experience was amazing. She really wanted to win.

Now we have players who are young in age, but they have experience under their belts. Something could happen at any time, they could take it to the next level. We're there, we're competing with everyone, but taking it to the next level is the thing.

Now we have more than 400 teams competing and can draw upwards of 20,000 people into the area. With teams coming from eight states on the East Coast we're one of the largest national competitions.

Now we will prepare the car for tomorrow's qualifying when we expect to be competing as a front-runner.

Nebraska is very talented and well-coached. Everyone is looking forward to competing in front of our home crowd.

Obviously, leading at this point in the season doesn't mean that much. But, the fact that this 17 team is competing for wins each week does. The cars have been great and our pit crew continues to be the best out there. It's a long season, but hopefully we can keep running this good and pick up some victories along the way.

People with this disability find it very hard to block out competing noises. For example, if a person with this disability was having a conversation with another person, and a fan was blowing in the room, the person with the disability might not be able to block out the fan and lose the conversation. A noisy class environment could make it tough.

My second trip to Shanghai is a surprise. Everything is great here. The facilities, the atmosphere and the weather in Shanghai are great. I am looking forward to competing with the other seven great players here in November and trying to play my best.

Nobody made serious errors, in terms of how to prepare themselves. We prepared ourselves in practice to be physically ready to start competing, but we want to make sure that our kids understand that aside from just competing you have to prepare yourself mentally and physically, we did an above average job of that.

New and old fans throughout the world will have the opportunity to enjoy our great game and see many of baseball's best players competing in this historic event.

On one hand it makes it even more special to accomplish something like this competing against your mentor and somebody who laid the foundation for such a great program at Cal State-Fullerton, ... But my heart goes out to him and his club because they are 180 degrees in the opposite of what me and my players are feeling.

On the men's side, where we have bodies we are competing well.

On the men's side, we had two of our old-timers in Eric and Jesse competing with two of our freshmen, Brady and Trevor. Jesse competed unattached tonight. He's coming off a foot injury, and he's just starting to come back. Eric was just tired after football. We've been kind of slow with him coming back. But he will be there pretty quick. His mark tonight isn't much off his personal best right now. Brady and Trevor both have a couple of events they need to work on. Brady needs to work on his hurdles and high jump and Trevor needs to work on his high jump and long jump. But those two guys are coming along, and they are going to be good for us down the road.

I was so pleased we won, because it was the only time I think we were able to win on senior night. At the same time, anytime you can beat a coach Knight team, there's always an added sense of pleasure, because you're competing against and beating the best of all-time. I think you get more satisfaction out of it, because of how successful Knight's been and all the games he's won.

I was so nervous to go out to practice because I was competing every day. I swear to God, I would lose sleep, ... I'd wake up and check the weather to see how windy it was going to be because I knew I was going out there and throwing. You'd learn valuable lessons about competition, and I approached every day in practice like it really was the game.

I wouldn't have believed it. We are on a roll. But if you had told me that our team would be competing against all the teams that we played to date, yes, I would've believed that. Or that we would be playing hard -- yes. Or that they'd be close games -- yes. I think the difference is that all of those things have happened and some of those close games have gone in our favor.

I would portray the lag as a glass half full rather than half empty. It's a pretty great performance when you consider what this quarter was competing with last year.

I would have loved to be there. It would have been a lot better to be competing with other top world athletes. If it's possible let's try and get back into the games.

If we get an early jump on storage before the hurricane fears kick in and before injections begin competing with generation demand (for air conditioning), we should see more downward pressure on prices.

If we go to free agency without a CBA, I would say very few teams are going to be in play and be active. If you do have a CBA, there are going to be a lot of teams out there competing for players.

I got no support from USA Wrestling. I was competing against professional Russians that do nothing but wrestle for a living, and I was forced to take a job working for this lowlife loser, John du Pont, who I didn't want in my life. I just wanted the money.

I got hurt after the fight and couldn't go back out there. It started to sink (in) for me. We put a lot of work in every day, and it's just frustrating to think that we're not going to be competing for a Stanley Cup ... that's why we play.

I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.

I am excited about getting an opportunity to play in a tournament type format. Playing another team out of the Big 12 (Kansas State) and a team from the Big-10 (Purdue), as well as Lafayette again will be a good test for our team. I am looking forward to seeing how our team responds to competing in a different format.

I am delighted that a qualification route has now been established for the best women players to gain access to the championship, competing alongside men on the same courses and from the same tees.

I am extremely proud of these dancers. We are a new program competing against teams who have been dancing for years. Our dancers showed great sportsmanship and enthusiasm.

I am impatient to see the explosion of competing new ways music will be sold online. Competition between fixed-price sales, subscription services and prepaid cards will animate marketing and advertising to drive more and more people to legal music sites.

I am really happy for them. It will be a good experience. We are looking forward to competing against the Chinese. I am pleased for Christina and Cassie, and look forward to going if I am selected as a coach for the team.

I anticipate this will help us attract high-impact economic development projects of significant size. The establishment of the port, we thought, was important at this time. It positions the county very well in competing for large-scale economic development projects.

Certainly Greg still has a chance of competing in Melbourne and that's why selectors have the discretionary power in situations like this.

Certainly for Disney it's riskier than their standard animation film because it has a lot fewer merchandising opportunities. My guess is they'll at least break even. It's being introduced early in the season and there's not much out there competing with it. The other studios are staying away from it.

Carbon brakes offer the same stopping performance as steel brakes but with the added benefit of a significant weight savings, which ultimately increases fuel efficiency. Next-Generation 737s are already lighter than competing Airbus models. This structural efficiency is a fundamental reason why Next-Generation 737s fly farther, higher and with better fuel efficiency than the competition.

But what airlines won't tell you is that when you try to redeem your free ticket you're competing with 40 million other frequent fliers for the same ticket. We all want to go to the same place and there aren't enough upgrade seats to go around.

But it was never about that. It was never about competing with people with legs. It was about being part of a team.

Businesses would rather go to a state where the employees have the right to join a union or not to join a union. In that sense, then, it's sort of a zero-sum game - where they are competing with and attracting business from other states.

Because Simpson has such a successful music program, it tends to be very competitive. It can be hard to maintain close friendships when you begin competing against one another for a part.

I'm always competing with the guy across the field. I don't want him to get all the balls. It just makes you step your game up that much more. I knew we were going to sign Randy before I even signed my contract. I welcomed it from day one.

I look up to them. I want to follow in their footsteps. They went to college and set an example for me. That's what we've been doing since we were little, just competing against each other and getting better.

I love competing against a guy like him, ... I know him pretty well and I know the type of person he is, and he is going to give everything he's got. It was a well-played game, and it was fun to have Roger out there.

I love basketball and look forward to competing again at the sport that I hold so dear, ... Interested NBA teams want assurances that I am completely recovered and that I am able to deal with rigors of daily competition. The very competitive CBA will provide me this opportunity.

I have always been a martial arts fighter; it goes to back when I was eighteen. I was competing on the circuit, but when you're performing, you tend to pull punches because you don't want to hurt anyone.

I have been at the New York City marathon several times to watch but this time I'm delighted and excited to be competing myself. The field is very strong.

If Boston and Oakland start competing to draft players no one else wants, each will get half. As long as the A's keep churning out talent from the draft and the farm system, they'll be fine.

I feel like I have played against some of the best players in the nation while competing in the Big 12 and I am ready to test my game at the next level.

I can't say we have more passion than anyone else, ... I can't say we have more intuititiveness. I can't say we have more creativity or more imagination, or we work harder. Our own internal expectation is to do those things better than everybody else we're competing against. I'm sure everybody else says the same thing, but our guys have found a way to do it.

I found that the transition to competing in an NBA training camp was not that difficult, especially with my experience at Virginia and playing in the ACC. Fortunately, I kind of caught lightning in a bottle that year, had a great training camp and made the team.

Getting them all the amount of work necessary is important as long as the three of them are still competing for the job. We're going to try our best to give them equal opportunity. We'll figure out a way to do it.

Give credit to UC Davis for doing a heck of a job staying with it and competing the whole way. We were fortunate (to win).

France is looking for more economic expansion in Thailand and the region. Politically, this is also a new area to compete to get influence. The United States, China and India are now competing for political influence in ASEAN, and France, a leading European country, does not want to be left out.

From our experience, coming into Montreal and competing at this venue has been just unreal. Having the Olympics here in the future gets kids excited about sport and I think it's a great commitment by the city of Montreal to sport and its development.

From my understanding, yes, I'm competing for a bullpen spot. It is subject to change at any time.