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Quotes About Competition

Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.
~ Jack Donovan
If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.
~ Dalia Mogahed
Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.
~ Thom Yorke
It's better to go out like a man, trying, than to play it safe and get second.
~ Sean Malto
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
~ Hesiod
I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.
~ Gene Kelly
I can attack a man's weakness and beat him. Or I can attack a man's strengths and break him.
~ Michael Irvin
All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.
~ Mary Renault
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men
~ Savielly Tartakower
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.
~ Florence Griffith Joyner
I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them.
~ Emo Philips
In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.
~ John Motson
I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
~ Karen Bass
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
~ Marilyn Monroe
Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.
~ Max Schmeling
And there's the man in the green flag!
~ Murray Walker
There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery
~ Neal Stephenson
Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.
~ Neal Stephenson
CosaNostra Pizza doesn't have any competition. Competition goes against the Mafia ethic.
~ Neal Stephenson
Other people - store clerks, burger flippers, software engineers, the whole vocabulary of meaningless jobs that make up Life in America - other people just rely on plain old competition. Better flip your burgers or debug your subroutines faster than your high school classmate two blocks down the strip is flipping or debugging, because we're in competition with those guys, and people notice these things. What a fucking rat race that is.
~ Neal Stephenson
there is no honour among consultants.
~ Neal Stephenson
And so what moved him onward and down the office building's stairway was not any sort of foolish hope that he could actually be saved, but competitive fury at the fact that he had been outdone by the suicidal improvisations of this fanatic.
~ Neal Stephenson
Generally you pick the unoccupied workstation that's closest to the door. That way, whoever came in earliest sits closest, whoever came in latest is way in the back, for the rest of the day it's obvious at a glance who's on the ball in this office and who is—as they whisper to each other in the bathrooms—having problems.
~ Neal Stephenson