Quotes About Competition

The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

I guess you never think your enemy is as clever as you are.

If you beat somebody at the thing they're best at, they're more likely to give way.

Han wasn't used to sharing territory with an enemy. You drove him out, or he drove you out. You hushed him or he hushed you, and life went on. For one of you.

It wasn't enough to be on the winning side. He would do whatever necessary to make sure he, Han Alister, came out on top.

Even when we win, we lose, Lyss thought.

În ce priveÅŸte goana dup? chinuri ÅŸi înverÅŸunarea în suferin??, îndr?gostitul gelos e cam singurul care-i poate face concuren?? martirului. Åži, totuÅŸi, în timp ce acesta din urm? e canonizat, cel?lalt e luat în râs.

Did you win? he asks. It wasn't a match, I say. It was a lesson.

No one can get behind the feeling that caused a pause in the match, not even the player trying to put her feelings behind her, dumping ball after ball into the net. Though you can retire with an injury, you can't walk away because you feel bad.

It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.

Disruptive technologies typically enable new markets to emerge.

disruptive technology should be framed as a marketing challenge, not a technological one.

First, disruptive products are simpler and cheaper; they generally promise lower margins, not greater profits. Second, disruptive technologies typically are first commercialized in emerging or insignificant markets. And third, leading firms' most profitable customers generally don't want, and indeed initially can't use, products based on disruptive technologies.

Cheating will always be a part of any game played. Play with hearts, you get struck by spades or swords. Cloves come in later to clear and refresh the air.

Fair play is always expected in any game. Any job you work in is a game too.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

The problem, as far as I can tell, is that women spend infinitely more time than men paying attention to, competing with, worrying about, everyone other than themselves.

When absolute power is on offer, talent fights to get in.

the feminine appetite for possession tends to emasculate every living contest, and can reduce a magnificient but inferior male to the status of a courtesan.

Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant—fist, mouse—palm, and ant—little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephant's trunk and paralyzed his brain.

There are more of them than us.

Those who cannot adopt or compete in the dominant status order — closely associated with the acquisition of knowledge and the mastery of complex cultural performances — make opposition to this order a badge of pride and recognition. The proliferation of conspiracy theories is an indicator of this process. People make themselves believe in them, because it induces them into an alternative world of status and rank.

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life."