Quotes About Competition

He wants to think he's from the best breeding. He wants to think himself brave. Can he win against all comers? And if not, does he have self-mastery to take a loss, stay cool in defeat, and try again undaunted? Those are the qualities of a great racehorse and a great gentleman.

held at Metairie on April 1, two four-mile heats. As he had always purposed, owners would put down five thousand dollars each, and that would make up the winner's purse, less one-thousand-dollar consolation prizes to any entrants that were not distanced.

a racehorse is a mirror, and a man sees his own reflection there. He wants to think he's from the best breeding. He wants to think himself brave. Can he win against all comers? And if not, does he have self-mastery to take a loss, stay cool in defeat, and try again undaunted? Those are the great qualities of a great racehorse and a great gentleman.

Yet all the projections confirm that SSPS plants built at a space manufacturing facility out of nonterrestrial materials should be able to undersell electricity produced by any alternative source here on Earth.

With the advent of controlled-environment agriculture it had become nearly impossible for individual farm families to compete economically with the mass-production greenhouses, so in most of the United States it was relatively easy for a young couple to purchase an old farm property and cultivate the soil, not for cash crops, but simply to live independently.

But in a world of fixed size, with no way to get more territory without taking it from a neighbor, there was always a war going on, and usually several.

If we could stop thinking in terms of capture, we would not have to fear the loosening of the captives' bonds and our failing beauty, and he would not have ulcers about being outstripped or belittled

What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.

George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.

As an ersatz opening batsman, Tavaré did not so much score runs as smuggle them out by stealth.

Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

antagonist having one hand strapped behind his back and the other

If you wanted to win – and win at all costs – there was no place for gentlemanly behaviour. Guns, gas or grenades; you should be prepared to get your hands dirty. 'A spiked mace smashed in the face,' he reasoned, 'is probably quite as

O processo de moda reestruturou a comunicação política: ninguém entra aqui se não for sedutor e tranquilo, a competição democrática passa pelos jogos do aliciamento, pelos paraísos artificiais do entertainment, da aparência, da personalidade midiática.

Boys are rewarded for playing games where they line up by height and then run into walls. Perhaps I'm making that up--or perhaps you should do a Google search for "Guy Runs into Wall for Fun.

The guys I date always want to test my strength and wrestle around. By the end, they're drenched in sweat.

The goal of your first marathon is to finish. You have no time goal. You're not endeavoring to win or place in your age category. Being a speed demon serves no purpose other than to court injury. Your only competition is you.

While the US was bogged down in Iraq, China continued to grow at a rapid pace, acquiring financial reserves and friends throughout the world as quickly as the United States was losing them.

Well," continued Hilary, "it felt like somebody's face! You know when you play water polo, and you push a chap's face with your foot—" "What sort of water polo do you play, for heaven's sake?" asked Richard Cowes.

There are several advanced classes in the university of liars. Golfers and fishermen rank very high in the sporting grades

We're the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it's only the best thing for us if it's the worst thing for someone else.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.