Quotes About Competition

This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.

Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.

With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up.

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

Fair is fair; all love is war.

Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

I don't want to go to a trade war, I want to beat China. I want to go to war with China and make America the most attractive place in the world to do business.