Quotes About Competition

Just because you're rivals doesn't mean you have to be enemies.

He settled his hat back into position. She was a rookie in her first big game, and he'd never let her see how close she'd come to unseating a champion

But there was something she didn't understand. To him, winning was everything. And he wasn't above cheating. With

The game of football makes men out of boys. Let's see if it can make a woman out of you.

Ryan's a very special man, and the sad fact is . . . if you're not careful, Sugar Beth's going to steal him from under your nose." "Leeann's right," Merylinn said. "Ryan is special. You can't let her take him away from you. You have to fight for him." "I'm special, too," Winnie heard herself say. "And I think it's about time Ryan Galantine fought for me.

When lovers play for kingdoms desire is not enough.

Everyone was against each other, trying to get their art displayed in the gallery. Some people would write that off as competition. I saw it as bullying. And in the music classes, to tell you the truth, I didn't get a lot of respect. Most kids started playing early. They took lessons with private teachers. My family

Katie leaned forward conspiratorially. "Oh, sweetie, I just said that because Alice is an old bag. You go after Devon. The man is fine. I don't blame you for changing your look for a shot at that. When the pool about you two gets going at Petie's Pub, I'm putting my money on you.

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

Country living—and definitely living in the country with a lot of animals—isn't peaceful. It's full of blood and guts and murder and rivalry and treachery and chaos, in a lovely green pitiless world.

The message couldn't have been clearer: women may rise to the top, but they must seem as though they don't care whether they win or lose. Nice girls care only about being nice. They win only by accident or by someone else's efforts.

And I shuddered at the apparent freedom so many women felt simply to take what they wanted without regard for other women's feelings. It was as though we were all crazed customers at some kind of year-end shoe sale, shoving our fellow females out of the way as we clutched desperately at the few remaining pieces of merchandise. I had the discouraging sense that our culture had created female monsters, dooming us to play out these intense and bitter rivalries almost against our will.

I wasn't nearly as good as he was, I knew, but I could at least try to stay in the game.

Most people think they're smarter than me," said Rodriguez. He winked at me. "And that's what gives me the edge.

Max was shaking his head. "Careers are going to be made, based on what happens over the next few days," he pointed out. Jules just looked at him for several long seconds. "That might be truly the most offensive thing you've ever said to me.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

There are much worse games to play.

Yes, and I'm sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

Well, I don't have much competition here." "You don't have much competition anywhere.

Ladies and gentlemen....." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!

Fire beats roses again.

Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at him Tell him that. Thats not nothing. Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour." "Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me ... no competition ... best thing that ever happened to you ... " " I don't remember that last part," I say, hoping it's too dim in here for the cameras to pick up my blush. " Oh, that's right. That's what I was thinking," he says " Scoot over, I'm freezing.

Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.