Quotes About Competition

In its intense and remorseless competition for every available nutrient, the Amazon offered little just for the taking.

Until the August 1 story about the Dahlberg check, the working relationship between Bernstein and Woodward was more competitive than anything else. Each had worried that the other might walk off with the remainder of the story by himself. If one had gone chasing after a lead at night or on a weekend, the other felt compelled to do the same. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

As the figure of the traditional doctor fades away, it is being replaced by a figure to the drug rep, one whose responsibility is to compete as vigorously as possible in the medical marketplace. Patients are being replaced by health-care consumers, who shop for the best medical bargains they can find.

Professor Rowe brings into focus the great internal conflict for such people, explaining that they "certainly do not want to lose, but may also be unable to stand winning, in the conventional way, since that would mean the fight is over.

In the weight room before a game against the Expos, pitcher Rick Sutcliffe asked Bill where his seats were. The answer was: "Up among the weird and the damned.

Once the race for the victim position is under way, each person must find some way to out-victim the other.

That's the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.

I lost them, too. Except even back then, it had been different, like there'd been a barrier. That's the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

C'mon, Alec," Damien said. "Sung just wants us to win." "No," I said. "Sung only wants us to win. There's a difference." Damien and the others looked at me blankly. This was not, I remembered, a word-choice crowd.

it is not so desirable that we should al- ways win, as that the game itself be worth the playing.

Mental face palm. Suddenly I wasn't sure there was enough room on the campus for both me and his ego.

For a moment, Strider almost forgot how pissed he was with Amun and Haidee as he savored the fact that he'd just cock-blocked the keeper of Death. Almost.

I looked around, counting the competition. Sixteen. To win, all I had to do was incapacitate each one, place my hand over their hearts and turn my palm into a flame. Easy. Yeah right.

William: You're just gonna have to take who I give you and deal Paris: Like anyone would pick you over me. William: You just wait and see. I'll have every single on of them eating out of my hand. Paris: Only if you had one of those delicious fried Twinkies. Strider rolled his eyes. Egotistical morons. Anyone with a set of eyes could see that Strider was the pretty one in their little three-some.

If at first you don't succeed, kill your opponent.

At least my balls are bigger than yours," she sneered, shocking me. O-kay. Not so lost anymore. "You sure about that?" Gavin sneered right back, and I couldn't be sure, but it kind of looked like he was fighting a…smile? "Take off your pants and show me." "The only way I'll ever take off my pants in your presence is to use the material to choke you to death.

I stride to the ring where Cole and River are still hammering at each other. I remove my shirt and drop it to the floor. "Woo-hoo," Ali calls. "Take it all off.

What do we got on the chopping block? And by the way, I'm smarter than you. My IQ is off the charts, man." If the chart only reached fifty, then yeah. No need to tax his poor brain with numbers, though.

Don't try to stay ten moves ahead of your opponent. Stay behind him with a knife.

My book boyfriend is better than your book boyfriend!

Impending death makes one run faster. I think that's probably why they fire a gun before track meets.

If you can't out-experiment and beat your competitors in time to market and agility, you are sunk. Features are always a gamble. If you're lucky, ten percent will get the desired benefits. So the faster you can get those features to market and test them, the better off you'll be. Incidentally, you also pay back the business faster for the use of capital, which means the business starts making money faster, too.

What use is it having all these offshore developers building features if we aren't getting to market any faster? We