Quotes About Competition

Why every hundred and ten years?" "Because that is thought to be the longest possible length of a human life, and thus the schedule makes true the claim—any given man will see only one in his lifetime, if indeed he sees one at all. Thus the old joke: An athlete loses every competition at the Saecular Games, but he is comforted by a friend who tells him, 'Cheer up! I'm sure you'll win at the next Saecular Games!

A product can be differentiated from the competition by creative advertising and promotion, even if competing products are physically identical.

A distribution strategy can differentiate your product from the crowd.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

It is like putting a dehumidifier and a humidifier in the same room and letting them fight it out.

Imagine Pulitzer prizefighting.

I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.

Humans perpetually fight, LeBlanc says, because they always outstrip the carrying capacity of their natural environment and then have to fight over resources.

We [Americans] became a nation of java junkies, wired from dawn to dusk intent on running faster, getting richer, dancing harder, playing longer and getting higher than anybody else.

The royal brothers both adored and loathed one another, each aware that the others were continually trying to usurp their father's favor.

Aninka was left staring at Taziel. She realised, with some amusement, that there would be competition over with whom Lahash would be spending the rest of the night. Well, she had no intention of spending it alone. Pointedly, she sat down on the bed.

Formless powers compete for control around us, and we are their pawns.

Shem's body looked so perfect, it could have been an idealised statue of male beauty. Daniel heard Sofia utter a lascivious, appreciative murmur, and a blade of pure jealousy sliced through his belly. She would want a piece of Shem. Everyone did.

Though his rivals at the competition were well trained, there was something different about Van's art. For many in the audience it represented the face of freedom. Performing under the auspices of a repressive regime and before an intimidating jury of some of the world's greatest musicians, he seemed to answer to no authority other than the shifting tides of his own soul. The mere act of hearing him became liberating. When

All football, hockey and soccer teams would now have to wear tutus." Brian continued. "Well, I like baseball, and we don't have to wear tutus because we don't beat up on each other." "Well put, son." I gave him the thumbs up, while picturing both dugouts racing out onto the field in pink and blue taffeta tutus as they lit into each other in a massive brawl over a bad call at first base.

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason. I burned inside to play volleyball. I loved the competition of it.

Just like genes, the memes have no foresight. They cannot be expected to foresee that almost anything might happen. They might even, in the process of diverting our energies from the genes, just wipe us out.

Make Sperm Wars, Not Real Wars!

Gazette described his competitor

It's no good if you are at a so-called best team, but you sit on a bench.