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Quotes About Competition

They speak of "This Dojo" and "That Dojo". They are looking for profit.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.
~ Joan Severance
Capitalism is an art form.
~ Camille Paglia
One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.
~ Clement Greenberg
To be your best today, your only goal is to outperform the guy you were yesterday.
~ Unknown
This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body.
~ Unknown
I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan.
~ Sung-Hi Lee
In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
~ Daniel Clowes
I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.
~ Paul Virilio
If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.
~ Zephyr Teachout
It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.
~ Alexander Kotov
In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
~ Andrew Mason
Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.
~ Billy Joel
Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.
~ Dick Morris
Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
~ Garry Kasparov
A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.
~ Garry Kasparov
What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!
~ Ivan Slavkov
To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.
~ Johnny Weir
I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.
~ Nigel Lythgoe
Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.
~ Sadiq Khan
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.
~ Jim Brown
Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.
~ Daisaku Ikeda