Quotes About Competition

Because I don't like being the fool who'd been tricked. I like games, but I hate to lose.

If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.

Victory shifts from man to man.

The Olympian is a difficult foe to oppose.

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

Today, when everything is intellectual competition, a man must be capable of sitting in his chair at a desk for forty-eight hours straight just as a general had to sit for two days in his saddle on horseback.

What I fight in Zenith is the standardization of thought, and, of course, the traditions of competition. The real villains of the piece are the clean, kind, industrious Family Men who use every known brand of trickery and cruelty to insure the prosperity of their cubs. The worst thing about these fellows is that they're so good and, in their work at least, so intelligent. You can't hate them properly, and yet their standardized minds are the enemy.

Life is art's rival and vice versa.

women are like the Olympic athletes of grudges.

Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her.

Now Logan competed against Troy by not competing, which was fucking genius. You couldn't win if only one of you was playing.

did not,' said Stan. 'I never said he lied. I told him it was an unfortunate reality of the game. I told him he would sometimes face kids who made bad calls and that he shouldn't focus on his opponent but on his own game.

You can choose the right shot, you can have a good swing and good technique, you can do everything right, and it can still go wrong. No player, no matter how good, makes one hundred percent of their shots. Some days you lose. They'd drummed that into the children too. You can be number one in the world, you can win and win and win but it's inevitable: eventually you will lose.

still beat him on the court. His father knew his strengths, his weaknesses, his strategies. Logan was powerless

He told Harry that he had to win prize money so his sister could get some kind of life-saving medicine. Dumb kid thought he was playing to save his sister's life. No wonder he cheated. If he'd stayed with me, I would have found out and put a stop to

She'd paid full price, but life was a competition and she knew non-working wives of wealthy men loved to talk about how they'd saved by bargain-shopping for designer clothes. It was their contribution to the household finances.

care that he didn't care? When he was a kid all he'd wanted to do was beat his older brother, in anything and

Would there be that subtle one-upmanship like there was between mothers? "It's so stressful having a gifted child." What would be the equivalent for a prison wife? "It's such a strain when your husband is a model prisoner! The others are constantly beating him up!

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

If yous a hater. Im eatin, yous a waiter.

Theres no keepin up with the brother man I can spell my name in burnt rubber.

How you want it? Show me my opponent.

I still eat rappers. Mmm. Scrumptious.

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.