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Quotes About Competition

Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!
~ Mikhail Tal
Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while
~ Wally Schirra
Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.
~ Tracy Morgan
I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
~ Hedy Lamarr
The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.
~ Helen Rowland
When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!
~ Susan Polgar
Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.
~ Sherry Argov
Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.
~ Tony Kornheiser
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
~ Gertrude Stein
India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.
~ James Hetfield
I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
~ Bette Davis
Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.
~ Grace Kelly
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Men are intimidated by smart women. They make us want to kick up our game more.
~ Ian Somerhalder
The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.
~ Susan Faludi
I won a prize for 'best sponge cake' at the Clacton Festival 2005. Having said that, I was only up against three other cakes.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
~ Carine Roitfeld
I get enthused by good football because I love this sport. I don't care about which jersey the teams are wearing or which sponsor pays them.
~ Ralph Hasenhuttl
My job in the Tour is to get the sponsor's logo in the most prominent place.
~ Mark Cavendish
Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.
~ Larry Dixon
I take every race like my ride is on the line, like it's my last. I don't get sponsors when I finish second. My sponsors aren't happy when I finish second. They're happy when I win.
~ Hailie Deegan
Every GP Masters race will stand out because we will be available for fans, media and sponsors.
~ Nigel Mansell
People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.
~ John Sweeney