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Adam has thrown three great games in a row and certainly didn't deserve to lose this one. They way he battled out of jams early on and kept us in the game is a tribute to the type of competitor he is.

On Tuesday he hit the ball as good as I've seen him hit it. He's such a great competitor that he probably still believes he can win out here.

The thing about Brett is he is such a talent and such a competitor that he is going to do everything within the framework of an offense -- and sometimes out of it -- to win a game, especially on a Monday night. I can't remember the last time he had a bad Monday night game. You are going to have to force him to have a bad game in the national spotlight.

Rachel was clearly the highlight of the trip. She is doing the best anybody has done at Valley in recent years and is arguably the best competitor in California.

Someone who uses a patent against a piece of software will usually be a competitor and won't care about the right to distribute that particular program himself.

First and foremost, he's an outstanding athlete. He has to be or else he wouldn't be in this position. He takes great care of himself. He's a competitor by nature. He has a great sense of humor, which I think keeps everything in perspective for him, good or bad. But, to play as long as he has played and to be on the verge of breaking these records is a tremendous accomplishment. For someone to be in a position that he's in and having done this for so many years and continue to be excited about coming to work every day and the opportunities he has is really a remarkable thing.

Once you create a loyal customer base, it's tough for a competitor to take that away.

Despite the macro concerns, today's strong results should remind investors that Lowe's is executing as well in retailing today, has some significant sales and earnings drivers in installed sales, commercial and distribution, and faces a competitor that is slowing square footage and looking to improve operating margins in its core.

Comparisons are inevitable but the reality is that I don't think anyone is trying to set A1 up as a competitor to Formula One,

Dell cited IBM as the competitor that has been the most aggressive right now.

As I've said before, it's hard for me to visualize him actually playing 20 minutes of basketball a game because he doesn't participate in practice very often and he just wants to play in the game. That philosophically doesn't make any sense to me. I think he has a big- time heart. I think he's a big-time competitor and he did a hell of a job in the second half against Brand in Game 1.

Aubrey pitched really well. She is a great competitor on the mound.

You're sad because as a competitor you'd like to go to the national championship game every year. I'm happy because six years from when coach (Bob) Knight was let go this is still a program. I'm very disappointed and sad I didn't get it done the way I would have liked.

That's just the competitor he is. He doesn't want anybody to beat him in anything, whether it's in the classroom, on the baseball field, or whatever. He wants to win at everything. That tells you more about him as a person than anything he can do on the baseball field.

That's just the kind of competitor he is, and I love it. When he goes to the mound we get everything he has. He's always, 'Give me the ball,' even in high school.

Amazon is not a competitor of ours as a music site, ... My gross margins are substantially higher than theirs. I am not at all dissatisfied at how we are doing.

Ryan is a true competitor and does not back down from any challenge presented to him on the basketball court.

Sammy Baugh embodied all we aspire to at the Washington Redskins. He was a competitor in everything he did and a winner. He was one of the greatest to ever play the game of football, and one of the greatest the Redskins ever had.

Evan is a great competitor and exceptionally dedicated. He's a great example for our program and a champion regardless of the outcome.

There's some of that, and then some of that is just sheer determination, guts, and talent. He is a phenomenal competitor and he is blessed with great talent. Not to take anything away from anyone else.

There's no doubt about it, I truly feel you have to be a good defensive team to go anywhere. Defense is a lot of attitude and desire. You have to be disciplined and you have to be a real competitor to play defense. At this point in time, we have a way to go to get there.

There's no question baseball disrupts the launches of entertainment schedules, ... And beyond ratings, the most important issue for baseball is whether there's a perceived competitor to Fox. But right now I don't see a strong competitor to Fox.

We think the market is ready for another competitor to Internet Explorer.

The only thing worse than cannibalizing your own market is having your competitor do it.

They were doubling him and he was calling Elliott's number and that just shows what kind of leader he is. Porter's a great player and Stephen held him to two points, so it shows what kind of competitor he is.

Additional 2 new licenses in the past four weeks further illustrates the potential of our business model catered for Europe, ... The fact that these two licensees chose Pegasus Gaming as their business partners further validates us as a major competitor in the online gaming industry.

Your gut tells you as a competitor to go for it -- do this, do that, do that -- but in many, many situations, I have seen it go both ways, ... To not have those points at the half would not have been right, either.

You're a competitor and you want to compete.

You're always going to have those butterflies. If you don't then you're not a competitor and you're not a player. When you lose that feeling in your stomach that's when you need to not do it anymore. That's what makes it special and exciting.

You're not going to take a chance. We need him for 10 more weeks, not just tonight. He wanted to come in, and that's the kind of competitor he is.

This is a reflection of a shared commitment to work together to help deliver the cost savings the company needs to successfully emerge from bankruptcy and to become the fierce competitor we know we can be. Together we are making real progress on our business plan and this agreement represents an important piece of our restructuring puzzle. It also represents additional hardship for our pilots and I appreciate their consideration of something that is vitally important to the future of this company.

I know what kind of a crazy competitor I am. If I'm in Lakeland in March and my country is playing Japan in the semifinals in Arizona, I know I'd want to be there. I'm the best guy available to help the team.

I'm thrilled to welcome Diego back to Chicago. He's a competitor and versatile player. He'll make a great addition to our roster.

I needed Paul in the race, not only because he is my competitor but because he is my friend. When I see him run, I can learn a lot from him. When he ran the world record, I learnt from how he ran and how he prepared for it. I need him to get experience.

In each instance, Sam has done far more than manage operations effectively, ... He has made it both his personal mission and that of IBM to become the number one competitor in each of these markets. Sam's unique mix of strategic vision, passion and discipline, combined with his intimate understanding of IBM, make him the right person to become IBM's next CEO.

I'm committed. I know what it was like for John the first year in Colorado. We've talked a lot. I know I can call John because he's always there for me. I just hate the fact that he never wants to let his players go -- but that's how he is. He's a competitor and I can respect that.

I'm obviously disappointed. The player in me, the competitor in me wants to be out there with my teammates fighting hard and out there having fun playing ball in front of our fans. But the situation is what the situation is. You have to act accordingly.

I'm a competitor and I want to beat whoever I can, ... That's what it is. You run from point A to point B and you beat who you can.

I had so much confidence in Kevin, and he is such a competitor once he steps on that field. If he'd had 190 pitches, he wouldn't have come out of the game because he was determined to get it. He held them at bay for a long time.

I'm introduced today as Iowa State's wrestling coach because of the selfless sacrifices of my college coach, Bobby Douglas. I promise to work as hard as I did as a competitor to build upon the traditions I've inherited as head coach. Iowa State University is a special place to our family. I'm humbled and excited at the same time about my opportunity.

If not for the light shed by a competitor this scheme may not have been uncovered.

I'm really pleased to have him back, and I hope that he's 100 percent healthy. He's such a competitor that he won't always tell you how he feels.

I'm just so proud of how the kids hung in there and found a way to win. We did just enough to move on. Sean is such a competitor and he kind of willed that free throw in. It was a huge team effort.

Intel has never really had to deal with a competitor in the x86 space that had its act together. But how much of the problem is due to AMD's competitiveness, and how much is due to internal factors like chipsets and inventories?

Intel let a competitor sneak into a market where they weren't before. Still, it was hard to believe that AMD would be able to maintain the kind of performance lead that they have enjoyed over the past one to two years.

If you play for Celtic or Rangers, there is a certain responsibility. If you are a footballer full stop, you have a certain responsibility. You have to be disciplined. It's okay being angry, but you must be focused and you just keep trying to work on that. There is a thin dividing line between being a competitor and going over that.

In the last decade, the Bell monopolies have all but wiped out their telephone competitors; they have swallowed their long-distance competitors; and with the announcement of the AT&T-BellSouth merger, they are on the verge of re-creating Ma Bell. And only one competitor really stands in their way: the cable industry.

If you ask me, do I believe there will be a Chinese competitor in a number of years, the answer is yes.

If you can save $5 on a transaction that used to cost $10, you'll do it, even if your competitor is going to make $1.

If United were to slip into Chapter 7 bankruptcy and go out of business, the loss of this competitor would surely push up prices.

I'm not sure how many sacks we got but I know he took a lot of hits. He's a very tough competitor and I would've liked to shake his hand. He ran the option and took shots in the pocket so you have to give him a lot of credit.

At first he seems like one of those laid-back, type-B personalities but that's just a disguise. Underneath he's a competitor that wants to win and do whatever it takes to win.

Tanner is a tenacious competitor with a strong will. He learned early on that conditioning can put you on a level playing field and he has always been in fantastic shape. Tanner has a remarkable set of lungs, he can just go and go. That enables him to control the tempo of the bout, to take the fight to the other individual.

Still, I'm excited for Sean. He's a great competitor and great talent. I'm excited to play the owner game and the crew chief game.

The bad news is that we may have lost the opportunity to also preserve enough spectrum for a fourth strong competitor in this market.

The bar has come up, and it's going to be very competitive. We stack up reasonably well in the morning round. Our chief competitor in the morning round is Russia.

Everyone pitched in and did what he does best. Morris is a competitor and with the game on the line he was our go-to guy. Jesse McGrath took care of the inside with 12 rebounds and Kareem Diggs was a real spark plug until he fouled out late in the fourth quarter.

Everybody knows what kind of player he is ? Pro Bowl player, All-Pro player, a great competitor on and off the field. He's a great teacher. I learned a lot from him, and I'm pretty sure some of the other guys (on the Jets) are going to learn some things from him, too.

Everybody wants to play all the time, and I'm no exception. I want to be out there every day as a competitor and a player. Unfortunately, that's not how it's been. I'm not complaining but at the same time, it's not something I particularly enjoy.

Any time you are a competitor and you're not winning, you get frustrated. The great ones all do and he's going to be one of the greatest that ever played this game.

Aaron understands the game of basketball and his role on the team. He has been an important part of the team's success. Aaron is a fierce competitor who leads by example.

Dana may have a friendly and bubbly personality, but when she steps on the track, she's a shark. She's a great competitor and a hard worker. She earns everything she gets.

Do I wish everybody in baseball had the same amount to spend? Absolutely. At some point, the disadvantage of being a small-market team is that the inefficiencies will be weeded out. Having less than your competitor is never an advantage.

At this speed, .eu will become a real competitor to .com.

It seems clear that OLN is certainly setting itself up as a competitor to ESPN. We welcome it. It will make us better.

I race to race; to feel the wind at my face and to feel the thrill of passing another passing competitor 10 feet from the finish. I don't race to give myself a pat on the back.

If there were a track on the circuit where I wished we raced more it would be New Hampshire. The fact that I have always liked the track as a competitor does not hurt either. I always felt I had a slight home court advantage over the other drivers because I have run so many laps there, and I use that to my advantage.

His leadership was invaluable. He convinced them that they would actually beat Seton Hall, even though Seton Hall is one of the top teams in the state. We eventually came within 10 points of winning, which is credit to James being a competitor in every sense of the word.

I look at this as a huge opportunity for us. It gives us the ability over the next 18 months to really shine with companies because the chaos can do nothing but help a competitor like us.

In terms of who's our biggest competitor and what keeps us up at night, it's Microsoft.

Investors and institutions buy our shares because they want to buy real estate in Singapore. Our priority is to extract value out of Singapore. No competitor has so many sites to create the luxury niche that we have started developing.

By the time I got past a few cars, my main competitor (Joe Blacker, in a 1978 Lola T298) had pulled out a fair gap. There was no way I would have caught up to him. It was still a fun race.

He started off mad. Since Day 1, when he walked into the Panther facility he was mad. But that's Steve. That's the competitor in him. He wanted to be the best.

He's (Smith) a good pitcher. We know he's one of the top three pitchers in the state. We know he's a competitor because of what he did to us in last year's state tournament. He worked ahead all game long. We just didn't adjust as hitters.

By no means is this a team to be written off. If you back a competitor into a corner, they are going to come out fighting. ... It is going to be a close football game. It always is.

By putting Mobil and Exxon together ... particularly in the upstream, we will have a portfolio that will diversify our asset base so that we can become a better competitor than we are now,

Hopefully, Mike will bounce back this week. He's a great competitor who wants to do well. I look for him to get better.

He's worked very, very hard to rehabilitate himself from a devastating injury and I don't think it's the last of Charlie Garner . He's too much of a competitor to end his career like this.

He's tremendously talented, he's really got some rare natural gifts. We felt really strongly about him, and it was more than how talented he was. He sees the field tremendously, he never makes the same mistake twice and he learns from all of them, and he's a tremendous competitor that knows how to win.

He's one of those guys that the kids really feed off of. And he feeds off everyone else. He's a big competitor and anytime you get a guy of that caliber it brings up the team value.

He's just a competitor I would say first and foremost.

He's just a good competitor, he has a good attitude about things. He's even a better competitor than I thought he was.

He's just a huge competitor and he loves what he's doing. He's going to be a really good one when it's all said and done.

He's just a tremendous competitor and we're so happy with him. He just helps us be a better basketball team.

I don't know if that affected him physically but it might have affected him mentally. That's the competitor in him, trying to make a play.

I don't know how any competitor could live with himself after cheating like that. How could you look yourself in the mirror if you were to win because you cheated?

I don't know if I've ever coached a better competitor than Mike Gray. He battles out there and will do whatever it takes.

George was a tough competitor who, as many golfers know, was a master with the putter. George will be missed by all who walked the fairways with him, and those of us who got to know him outside the ropes.

He's always there. You never have to ask him twice to do something. He's just a great kid. He's aggressive and focused. He's a quiet competitor who is going to dominate the region. No one can beat him in this county. He's just that good.

He's a magnet. He's very charismatic, he is a showman. He's one of the few showmen that is a tough competitor as well.

There's the thought that if this is going to be so hot, why not price it higher? But if you do, maybe you lose volume and it doesn't stay hot as long, or you have to move to incentives and price cuts sooner, or you give a competitor a chance to enter the field sooner. The dealers certainly are making money. But the factory doesn't benefit from that.

It was hard because I've always been a competitor and wanted to go out and compete regardless,

It was great to beat a great competitor like Justin Gatlin. It's been a great season for me.

It was not the competition from Wal-Mart -- every new competitor splits the pie another time.

Any time he goes out there, you can count on him. At times he's been the odd man out but he's as good a competitor as there is.

As far as I'm concerned, they were a complete competitor to the operating system.

Ashley just kept getting better and better last season. That's something you hope for from all incoming players. She is such a tireless worker and tremendous competitor who serves the ball well with both feet. Ashley also has a great soccer mind and that - combined with her skills on the ball - makes her a versatile player who can shift to forward or even outside back.

Anybody who is a competitor knows this is what you want, this is what it's all about. As a competitor, this is the kind of situation you live for.

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

You've got to be a competitor to be in this league, and it's frustrating. Maybe as far as the playoffs go, it doesn't count, but we had a nice little streak going and it's over now.