"To think of world competition humbles me".
No matter what you think of his competition, and so far it hasn't been necessarily elite, he still has two more touchdown passes than incompletions on the season.
He points out that it is increasingly irrelevant to think of global competition in terms of national economies anyway: most big corporations are multinational archipelagos of employees and share holdings.
In fact I can't think of any competition in the Olympics, or all of SportsWorld, more creepy and disturbing: these largely shapeless girls in their leotards and flaxen-waxen hair and bouncy-wouncy ponytails.
And you need to think of the competition as not just the constellation of other startup companies in your space, but any great company that has shown the ability to become "technology forward" could be thought of as a competitor or an alternative.
Tony doesn't ever use the word "sexy" to describe the prize rears, and it's this polite approach that makes it almost impossible to think of the competition as a sexualised entity.
Try to be creative when you think of the competition.
The world still likes to think of these competitions as amateur contests, but of course that's not true when pros like Rafael Nadal turn up and countries like China support vast national training programmes.
