Quotes About Competition

I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle in.

Dru Anderson: You should wear some gloves. Graves: Ruins the image. Dru Anderson: You'll goddamn well freeze to death. Graves: Hey, we've got to suffer for beauty. Chicks don't go for guys in gloves. Dru Anderson: How would you know? Graves: I know. You never said if you liked shooting pool. Dru Anderson: I don't, but I'll beat your ass at it, okay? Graves: Fine. If you can. Dru.

Chess isn't one of my favorites, it takes a cool calculating hatred to play well, and I'm not good at that.

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Even when you win the rat race , you're still a rat .

The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.

The victor shall soon be the vanquished, if he relax his exertion; and ... the vanquished this year, may be the victor in the next, in spite of all competition.

It's not just the cheerleading thing I have a problem with, it's the whole jock enchilada. I'm all for a good game of basketball in teh driveway or a killer bike ride. But when there's tackling and grunting involved-- no thanks.

Working just a little harder than someone else who might be just as talented (or even a bit more) is what will win the day.

What this tells us is that children who are outperformed may give up rather than fight to improve, and those who do win may not feel compelled to keep trying as hard if even the losers get praise and a trophy.

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If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.

You say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She can sit on her hair. A lover could climb that hair like a gym rope. It's fairy-tale hair, Rapunzel hair. We saw her practicing for the pageant in the hotel ballroom with two wild pigs, her hair braided into two lassoes.

Any game has a limited number of winners and a potentially unlimited number of losers.

Life is the game that plays Humans.

The UUe will cannibalize all other economic systems.

Forfeit the game Before somebody else Takes you out of the frame And puts your name to shame Cover up your face You can't run the race The pace is too fast You just won't last

I don't think the world works on merit.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.

Economics doesn't reward nice. It rewards smart.

I've always been around dudes and sports.

Had Simpering Rachel who clutched men's arms at parties in order to repel a competitor for his attentions been there all along? How awful, she thought to herself. How absolutely awful.