Quotes About Competition

As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: "Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.

I never cheat. I practice Gamesmanship - the art of winning games without actually cheating.

Trust me, you can't play the game if you don't know the rules. And if you don't know the rules, someone's bound to get hurt.

One more game," somebody behind her said, and somebody else said, "But who's going to be It?

She shook her head impatiently; the idea of being in competition with other unhappy people was distasteful to her. It was an argument that her friends sometimes used, very delicately of course—that other people had more reason for grief than she had. As if grief could be measured by its causes, and not by the victim's capacity for suffering!

In the world there are only two ways of raising one's self, either by one's own industry or by the weakness of others.

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

Just for the record, I'm in favor of drug testing EVERY year just as long as it's a level playing field. The problem arises that a lot of these substances are hard to detect. So, it's very difficult to have true, drug-free bodybuilding competition, especially on the professional level.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

If China adopts Western industrial methods, she will be able to underbid us in all the markets of the world." "Perhaps in cheap production," I made answer. "But there is no reason why Japan should depend wholly upon cheapness of production. I think she may rely more securely upon her superiority in art and good taste. The art-genius of a people may have a special value against which all competition by cheap labor is vain.

Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

It was Hiss who won by stamping on another's foot, and he spent the meal staring at Poppy and missing his mouth with his spoon.

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

Ayo my crew be deliverin hot lead when gats I clench, rappers I jack and lynch, nobody could fuck with the way I be killing up shit in rap events.

When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing.

Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?

I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbor. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Well," Tessa said, sighting along the line of the knife, "you behave as if you dislike me. In fact, you behave as if you dislike us all." "I don't," Gabriel said. "I just dislike him." He pointed at Will. "Dear me," said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. "Is it because I'm better-looking than you?

Simon looked from one of them to the other, and shook his head. " When did you two get so buddy-buddy? Last night it was all, 'I'm the most elite warrior!' ' No, I'm the most elite warrior!' And today you're playing Halo and giving each other props for good ideas.

We work through this together, remember? No shutting me out. No epic sulks." "I was figuring I could sulk for Idris in the next Olympics," Jace said… "You and Alec could go for pair sulking," said Clary with a smile. "You'd get the gold.

Isabelle. Let me just follow up by describing what a big mistake you would be making if you broke up with Alec. The Lightwoods are seriously hot people. some people say the Herondales used to be hot, but think about it-not only do we outnumber them, but we took their last hottie and we made him ours. obviously, we won the victory.

Magnus Bane," said Magnus. "High Warlock of Brooklyn and Scrabble champion.

Give me the baby," Maryse said jealously. "You've had him for four whole minutes, Clarissa.