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Quotes About Competition

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose man enjoyment is winning.
~ Chuck Noll
Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.
~ Mariah Burton Nelson
In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal.
~ Bill Bernback
Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.
~ Anonymous
The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game ! and lost.
~ Murray Kepton
Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.
~ Joan C. Harvey
I was nervous and confident at the same time, nervous about going out there in front of all of those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.
~ Althea Gibson
There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
~ John Ruskin
An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest
~ F. R. Scott
If a player continues transgressing the rules, his side shall lose him.
~ Anonymous
Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.
~ Friedrich Hayek
Business is a combination of war and sport.
~ Andri Maurois
Net - the biggest word in the language of business.
~ Herbert Casson
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
~ William Wrigley
Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.
~ Knute Rockne
Anytime you play golf for whatever you've got, that's pressure. I'd like to see H.L. Hunt go out there and play for $3 billion.
~ Lee Trevino
You don't know what pressure is until you play for $5 with only $2 in your pocket.
~ Lee Trevino
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.
~ Darrell Royal
In the race for love, I was scratched.
~ Joan Davis
When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.
~ Tug McGraw
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
~ Samuel Johnson
In the three years I played ball, we won six, lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician ... calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose.
~ Roger M. Blough
There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
~ Euripides