Quotes About Competition

Yet his salary was considerably more than Magellan's, the highest of any in the fleet:

The gray water churned angrily where competing tides vied with one another

the Indians simply outran them. "They made such enormous strides that with all our running and jumping we could not overtake them," Pigafetta noted.

La supercompetencia conduce a menudo al despido, porque transtorna la jerarquía y viola con ello el primer mandamiento de la vida jerárquica, según el cual la jerarquía debe ser preservada.

Winnen is niets, mijn jongen. Winnen laat geen sporen na. Winnen is bevrediging. Verliezen is leven.

I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara , which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon , which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.

She'll get all wooed by some smart, rich, dumbface, handsome, millionaire guy who doesn't care about money but has a lot of it. He'll probably have a private plane that goes to his private island that probably has dolphins. This means that Jen, on top of being happy and smart and pretty and sweet, will most likely get to name and play with...pet dolphins. You can't compete with dolphins .

You do not win a race by trying not to loose

In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.

Sometimes the bitch wins.

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots." - On North Carolina missing 22 of its last 23 shots in losing to Georgetown in the NCAA tournament.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or lose?

Art is not a sack race.

When the bets were in Dusty would nod his head and I'd knock the guy out. I don't know if you've ever knocked anybody out, but the best place to hit them is where the jaw meets the ear. If you catch them right they fall forward. They were always grabbing at my shirt on the way down and ripping it, so I had a deal with Nixon that I got a new white shirt every night as part of my pay.

Between the second and third rounds I asked my buddies what the hell was going on. "Who's hitting me on the head?" They told me it's the referee, that he doesn't like Irishmen. I walked over and told the referee if he hits me on the back of the head one more time I'm going to knock him out. He said, "Get back in there and fight, rookie." I

Russ quit smoking on a bet with Jimmy Blue Eyes,

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never

The English commenced their career of extravagance somewhat later than the French; but as soon as the delirium seized them, they were determined not to be outdone.

An active manager must overcome the drag of about 3.25 percent in annual operating costs. If the fund manager is only to match the market's historical 9 percent return, he or she must return 12.25 percent before all those costs. In other words, to do merely as well as the market, an active fund manager must be able to outperform the market return by over one-third or 34.1 percent!5

How can institutional investors hope to outperform the market... when, in effect, they are the market?

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.