Quotes About Competition

Felices Juegos del Hambre! ¡Y que la suerte esté siempre, siempre de su parte!

So, how about that training score. E-le-ven.

The last tribute alive

be ever in your favor!" I finish with equal verve. We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared out of your wits.

Wait until I'm in the arena and sic starving wild animals on me.

Each hour begins a new horror, a new Gamemaker weapon, and ends the previous.

But there are much worse games to play.

it's hard not to resent those who don't have to sign up for tesserae.

They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you

When that wire was cut, everything just went insane. I can only remember bits and pieces. Trying to find her. Watching Brutus kill Chaff. Killing Brutus myself. I know she was calling my name. Then the lightning bolt hit the tree, and the force field around the arena . . . blew out.

Y recuerda una cosa: aunque no se me permite apostar, si pudiera, apostaría por ti. —¿De verdad? —susurro. —De verdad —afirma Cinna; después se inclina y me da un beso en la frente—. Buena suerte, chica en llamas.

Katniss blew it out, Peeta,

to their terror when they saw the reality of twenty-four tributes circled together, knowing only one could live? Haymitch and Peeta come in, bid me good

Naked bodies are no big deal in the arena, right?

Las reglas de los Juegos del Hambre son sencillas: en castigo por la rebelión, cada uno de los doce distritos debe entregar a un chico y una chica, llamados tributos, para que participen. Los veinticuatro tributos se encierran en una enorme arena al aire libre en la que puede haber cualquier cosa, desde un desierto abrasador hasta un páramo helado. Una vez dentro, los competidores tienen que luchar a muerte durante un periodo de varias semanas; el que quede vivo, gana.

May the odds be ever in your favor ~ Effie Trinket

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

Maybe we'll both be allowed to live — if I play it right — to watch the Games go on. . . .

Oh, well, I think. There will be twenty-four of us. Odds are someone else will kill him before I do. Of course, the odds have not been very dependable of late.

And May The Odds Ever Be In Your Favor!

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

She had long ago concluded that it was impossible to find guys who were considerate and sensitive as well as hot. Well, impossible to find some that didn't already have boyfriends of their own anyway.

I'm going to kick his ass for touching you," he growls. "And for wrecking my bike." "I'm glad I came first in that sentence." "Baby, you always come first.