Quotes About Competition

If you shoot a marble outside the circle, you get a point," Mr. D explained. "The player with the most points wins. I used to be pretty good.

No fair! Yours is prettier than mine," Grace said to Nancy, and pushed in front of her. "Can I go first, Mr. D? Can I?" "Whoa, no pushing. Everybody will get a turn." Shooting marbles was harder than it looked. Nancy didn't get any points.

Sometimes these days Dean felt like picking up the phone and calling his buddy Michael Jordan and chortling with him over how he'd played Continental Dairy Industries off against National Milk, but of course he didn't have Michael's number.

Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race.

Are you telling me your brain and your lady parts decided on a love fest bake-off winner?

That sounds like something sick," Lula said. "What kind of a person would participate in a cornhole competition? I personally wouldn't be involved in anything to do with cornholes.

Whatever the other team does best, that's what you have to do better.

Clara and I retraced our steps and returned to the speakeasy. Josh and Carl were playing checkers in the dim light. "Who's winning?" I asked. "Carl is winning," Glo said. "If we don't let him win he pitches a tantrum and throws the checkers all around the room.

Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.

It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

Tournament football is unlike anything else. The campaign can be great, but a finals is a different challenge.

Unlike most sports playing fields, a boxing ring is a temporary structure.

Unlike Bitcoin or email, our financial institutions and payment systems today are proprietary. This limits the ability for consumers to easily switch between payment providers and creates less competition for services.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.

What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.

This career is a relentless hustle because Hollywood is crowded with too many smart, talented people pursuing the same dream and the same pool of entertainment investment dollars. And unlike in law or medicine, there are no college degrees required - no barriers to entry.

One of the reasons why the personnel of U.S. politics are more diverse is that - unlike the U.K. - one can compete for the top job without spending long years, or any years, in the nation's legislature.

Because we are a small country, unlike England, Italy, or Brazil, we don't have as many good players.

Acting Is unlike any other profession in the world. It's a succession of jobs. When 'The Addams Family' ends, however good you may be, when that job ends, you end. My gettng the show was a million-to-one shot.

Unlike GGG, who just boxed Steve Rolls who was ranked about 81 in the world, I'm fighting real guys.