Natalie du Toit Quotes

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

I am a believer in people succeeding on merit.

The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

I'm worried about doing my best, playing to my potential, helping out my teammates, and trying to win games for the Giants.

Let the path be open to talent.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.

On the field, everyone is equal.

I think we have enough trouble finding community in this country, and sport does provide that. It is a mediocrisy, the greatest mediocrisy. If you're the best, it shows in sports. Nobody can say, 'Well, he's only there because of his connections,' or whatever. In that sense, I suppose it upholds democracy and the best in us.

I was a firm believer that every cricketer needs to get a fair chance.

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

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

I'm a firm believer in young, old, tall, short, doesn't matter. Basketball is basketball. It's the way you approach it.

Everyone starts the playoffs with the same record. It doesn't matter who won 70 games or whatever.

Anyone can achieve it if they're given the opportunity to.

All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

No one man is superior to the game.

I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

Merit should count more than academic background.