Quotes About Competition

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

the so-called radical Negroes who have read and misunderstood Karl Marx and his disciples and would solve the political as well as the economic problems of the race by an immediate application of these principles. History shows that although large numbers of people have actually tried to realize such pleasant dreams, they have in the final analysis come back to a social program based on competition.

Most games are lost, not won.

I had many years that I was not so successful as a ballplayer, as it is a game of skill.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: you can win or you can lose or it can rain.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

What makes capitalism succeed is not chiefly its structure of incentives but its use of knowledge and experience.

When Homo sapiens came along, after all, the Neanderthals had a hard time, and virtually all animals were subdued. The lucky ones became pets, the unlucky lunch.

The fiercely competitive are fierce because they don't see themselves as competitive.

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.

Competition is the spice of sports but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Who knows how many potential Olympic medalists have turned away from sports because of youth-league coaches who preach that the purpose of life lies in beating the school on the other side of town, and that it doesn't matter how you play the game, just so you win.

They were like two landowners in Pompeii arguing over who had the better view of Vesuvius.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

Evolutionary biologists have identified a rule they call the life/dinner principle. A predator puts less effort into the chase than its prey: if the hunter fails it loses only its dinner, if the hunted fails it loses its life.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting... there are quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators.