Quotes About Competition

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Football is a sad game.

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

After the war, liberal theology, the emergence of the Social Gospel, and a growing faith in science competed with a rising fundamentalism.22

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet.

The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It's violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage. By witnessing physical grace, the soul comes to understand and love beauty. Seeing people compete courageously and fairly helps emancipate the individual by educating his passions.

Politics is always driven by competing worries.

Chemical cheating will be decisively routed when fans become properly repelled by it. They will recoil in disgust when they understand that athletes who are chemically propelled to victory do not merely overvalue winning, they misunderstand why winning is properly valued.

The permutations of rent-seeking are as many as the administrative state is vast. Rent-seeking is the activity of attempting to increase one's income without increasing the quantity or quality of the goods or services offered to customers. It is the attempt to manipulate public power for private advantage—to get government to improve your economic circumstances by conferring a benefit on you or a handicap on your competitors.

Sport does not just build character, it reveals it.

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions-all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.

The test distills into a few questions: What is your attitude toward people who surpass you in the creation of wealth or in other accomplishments? Do you aspire to equal their excellence, or does it make you seethe? Do you admire and celebrate exceptional achievement, or do you impugn it and seek to tear it down?

Superfluous focus on accounting and other procedural details is preventing U.S. industry from competing with rough-and-ready rivals in Asia that can build thousands of factories and skyscrapers while the United States dithers with environmental-impact litigation, re-computation, and backup of accounting reports.