Quotes About Competition

The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.

Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.

I killed you. And you. And you.

I must still look perplexed because Gale delivers the next line very slowly. "Katniss…he's still trying to keep you alive." To keep me alive? And then I understand. The Games are still on.

Peeta: You be nice to her, Finnick. Or I might try and take her away from you. Finnick: Oh, Peeta. Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.

Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.

Let the Hunger Games Begin!

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

Es como un juego, repetitivo, incluso algo tedioso después de más de veinte años. Aun así, sé que hay juegos mucho peores.

And she's very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death.

We're gonna kill you. Just like we did your pathetic little ally... what was her name? Rue? Well first Rue, then, you, and I think we'll just let nature take care of Lover Boy. How's that sound?

Where's Lover Boy? Oh, I see. You were gonna help him, right? Well that's sweet. It's too bad you couldn't help your little...friend. That little girl? What was her name again? Rue? Well, we killed her. And now...we're gonna kill you." -Clove, The Hunger Games

It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast.

Volaste la comida en pedazos?-susurra. -Hasta el ultimo trocito. -Vas a ganar. -Lo hare. Ahora voy a ganar por las dos

Dean Casca Highbottom, the man credited with the creation of the Hunger Games,

Damas y caballeros, ¡que empiecen los Septuagésimos Cuartos Juegos del Hambre!

The real sports of the Hunger Games is watching the tributes kill one another

You know what my mother said to me when she came to say goodbye, as if to cheer me up, she said maybe District 12 will finally have a winner. Then I realized she didn't mean me, she meant you." -Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games

May the odds be ever in your Favour

Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victors of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark! I give you — the tributes of District Twelve!

People in this arena weren't crowned for their compassion

We both know they have to have a victor. Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces.

I almost forgot! Happy Hunger Games!