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Quotes About Competition

In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.
~ Curtis LeMay
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.
~ Rinus Michels
I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.
~ Steve Jobs
A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.
~ Che Guevara
Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.
~ Fabian Cancellara
Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.
~ Bernard Madoff
War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.
~ Dick Motta
Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.
~ John Shebbeare
Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
~ Oscar Wilde
Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.
~ Roy Keane
Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.
~ John Facenda
All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.
~ Plato
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.
~ Boris Becker
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
~ Jonathan Swift
People pay to see blood, they pay to see war and that's why people are supporting my journey because I deliver every time I step in the ring.
~ Anthony Joshua
I have brought you to the ring, now dance if you can!
~ William Wallace
The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.
~ Anatoliy Golitsyn
And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.
~ Sun Tzu
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
~ Barbara Tuchman
One makes war to win, not because it's just.
~ Michel Foucault
Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.
~ Sun Tzu