Quotes About Competition

Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

Mine is better than ours.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

Sex - the poor man's polo.

The rules of soccer are very simple. Basically it's this: If it moves, kick it; if it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

I can always make it a rule to get there first with the most men.

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

International sport is war without shooting.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race, religion or wealth: and where the only concern is 'Have you come to play?'

Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.