Quotes About Competition

The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.

No one who now competes against Tiger Woods does so without wearing a similar competitive mask. Even as they try to forge ahead and

Men are liked better when they win. Women are liked better when they lose. This is how the patriarchy is enforced every day.

It was a game, and life was the playing field.

Obstruction is the fate of the feared, the envied.

Use your power greatly and you may beat those with great power.

Creativity flourishes when we are allowed to express our uniqueness for the JOY of it. No competition, just the delight of CREATING.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union never could accomplish that because it was a resource exporter and was in competition with these countries. Consequently, it had little to offer economically and, instead, offered guns and ideology. The U.S. used to be the supplier of goods and buyer of resources but, as its manufacturing base has shrunk, it has been increasingly displaced by China. That places the U.S. in a weaker position versus China than it was versus the Soviet Union.

Help us to complete this mission successfully. Help us in our future space endeavors, that we may show the world that a democracy really can compete, and still are able to do things in a big way, are able to do research, development, and can conduct various scientific, very technical programs in a completely peaceful environment.

the central government views itself, not competition, as the regulator of industry.

Yet Zhongguancun pales when measured against India's Bangalore, where government-sponsored development efforts started at about the same time. Today Bangalore produces original product, which domestic companies in Zhongguancun have not yet mastered, and Zhongguancun's output badly trails Bangalore's. That's just a reflection of something fundamental: "modern" China cannot keep up with "backward" India when it comes to information technology.

Technocrats evidently believe that to build competitive enterprises they must first eliminate competition.

All of us watch the man with the ball. Accordingly football has come to be thought of in terms of individuals. The artisans engaged in a manœuvre are forgotten because of the glory of the hero who actually completes the play.

Badminton joke

Eight female badminton players were expelled from the Olympics for trying to lose on purpose. So, tragically, they'll never have another chance to play badminton unless they get invited to a picnic.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in man.

My computer kept beating the pants off me at chess, until I discovered that it was no match against me at kickboxing.

But cards are war in disguise of a sport...

And it is in games that many men discover their paradise.

Egotism, n.: doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.

Bankruptcy—a peculiar institution that enabled an individual, who had failed in competitive industry, to forego paying his debts. The effect was to ameliorate the too savage conditions of the fang-and-claw social struggle.

When people focus on their narrow specialties, the different departments go to war. They don't function as the parts of one company. They act more like competing factions.

I admit to a specialized occupation, which in fact has not so much as acquired a name. Not to put too keen an edge on it, I wait under gallows until the corpse drops, whereupon I assume possession of the clothes and valuables. I find little competition in the field; the work is dull, and I will never become wealthy, but at least it is honest, and I have time to daydream.