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Quotes About Competition

It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.
~ Bode Miller
Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.
~ George Burns
You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.
~ Gerry Cooney
Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
~ Ivan Turgenev
If Serena Williams played the men's circuit she'd be like 700 in the world.
~ John McEnroe
Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
~ John Stuart Mill
Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.
~ Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.
~ Ray Lewis
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.
~ Red Smith
The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature
~ Stanley Ellin
Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain!
~ Vitali Klitschko
The game women play is men.
~ Adam Smith
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
~ Arthur Keith
Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.
~ Henry Fuseli
Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.
~ Elihu Root
Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own.
~ Mark Wahlberg
I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical.
~ Henry Cavill
I am still the fastest man on earth.
~ Asafa Powell
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
~ Livy
I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad
~ Mike Tyson
Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.
~ Milt Gross