Quotes About Competition

Curran got rid of Ascanio and saddled me with not one, but two bodyguards. God help anyone who dared to look at me funny. They would rip him to pieces, just to outdo each other.

It's the way of our universe. A never-ending chain of cannibalism: the stronger prey on the weaker only to become prey in return. The only way to win the game is to not play.

You like to win." She took a sip from her glass. "And forcing yourself on me would mean you failed in your conquest.

Some people simply live to prove to others that they have more.

Believe me, my boy, women don't love a man for himself but as a weapon against other women.

He notes the depressing haste with which the successful, in the sexual sphere as in all others, segment themselves from the failures.

The games are always been played, and no one plays the games like me. You just have to be the best. And I usually am.

Fighting and scars are part of a trader's overhead. But fighting is only useful when there's money at the end, and if I can get it without, so much the sweeter.

In fact, once when I imprinted on a young lady's lips a chaste and fatherly kiss for about five minutes, I stopped and said, sorrowfully, "Wouldn't you rather be kissed by a twenty-one-year-old boy?" She frowned and said, "Of course not. If you'd ever been kissed by a twenty-one-year-old boy you'd know better than to ask." Remember that. In any direct competition, the old man is bound to win and the young man knows it.

Votbinnik had Jandorf practically in Zugzwang (his pieces all tied up, Bill explained)

You get it? There isn't any industrial research group of any size that isn't trying to develop a space-warp engine, and Consolidated and U.S. Robots have the lead on the field with our super robot-brains. Now that they've managed to foul theirs up, we have a clear field. That's the nub, the . . . uh . . . motivation. It will take them six years at least to build another and they're sunk, unless they can break ours, too, with the same problem.

Es la risita adquisitiva; es la risita del hombre que acaba de obtener algo que deseaba ardientemente a expensas de algún otro. Relatos de los Viudas Negras (Kindle Location 215). LeLibros. Kindle Edition.

The worst dog gets the best bone. Why is it?

El mundo es violento y predatorio, regido por la ley implacable de los más fuertes. La selección de la especie no ha servido para que florezca la inteligencia o evolucione el espíritu. A la primera oportunidad nos destrozamos unos a otros como ratas prisioneras en una caja demasiado estrecha.

La selección de la especie no ha servido para que florezca la inteligencia o evolucione el espíritu, a la primera oportunidad nos destrozamos unos a otros como ratas prisioneras en una caja demasiado estrecha.

la emancipación de las mujeres, que han tomado por asalto el mundo de los hombres. Tuvimos que actuar como ellos, aprender sus tácticas y competir.

nunca, no pedir nada, esforzarse por ser los primeros en todo y no confiar en nadie. Alma

We are very self-centered: the rest of the universe exists only to consume our wines and produce soccer teams we can beat.

I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.

I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.

I come from a country that lives and breathes rugby, and I didn't think there would be anywhere else in the world that could be the same. But New Zealand takes it to another dimension. It's extraordinary how much passion Kiwis have for the game.

Everyone thinks Australia and New Zealand MMA fighters don't have that wrestling base, whereas a lot of Americans and other countries have, with them being able to do wrestling at high-school levels.

If you can beat New Zealand, then you're probably going to win the World Cup.

Every rugby player in Australia and New Zealand or wherever they are from wants to play in the World Cup, and I am no different.