Quotes About Competition

Roger and I would squat in the sweet-scented myrtles and lay bets with each other as to whether or not, on this particular morning, George was going to fight an olive tree.

To oversimplify, we overwhelmingly search out opportunities to play Stag Hunts rather than outsmart each other in Prisoner's Dilemmas.

In this business, it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place. The

I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.

Nothing illegal. Just the business itself—racing horses before they should even be ridden, wrecking their bones before they've finished growing.

The adversary system is a kind of warfare in mufti.

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, "A free field and no favor."

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

London is a roost, for every bird.

Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.

First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

All my life I've been competing-and competing to win. I came to realize that in this way, this cancer was the toughest competition I had faced yet. I made up my mind that I was going to lick it all the way. I not only wasn't going to let it kill me, I wasn't even going to let it put me on the shelf.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

We're the best team in baseball. But not by much.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.