Quotes About Competition

Close' only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons

The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

Maybe it's the taste of blood in my mouth or how angry I am at Derek, but I turn to Ben, slapping my stick on the ice. "Screw him," I say. "I'm making this team.

To live in the city of crowds and traffic and constant noise, to be always striving, to be in the ceaseless competition for money and status and power, perhaps distracted the mind until it could no longer see—and forgot—the all that is. Or maybe, because of the pace and pressure of that life, sanity depended on blinding oneself to the manifold miracles, astonishments, wonders, and enigmas that comprised the true world.

Nevertheless, an Olympic pool is an Olympic pool, touched by immortal glory.

En el mundo de los juegos de competencia, los espectadores no pueden evitar erigir héroes más allá de los reales poderes que tengan sus elegidos.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

I found that the Russians had destroyed much of their country trying to keep up with the United States in their arms race.

The competition always stayed close on our heels, but we managed to keep innovating and improving our products.

I often wondered: is it some kind of a trade-off? Do others have to lose so we can win?  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

It was a competition in agony. Like rich women in posh restaurants ordering ever-smaller salads.

I often wondered: is it some kind of a trade-off? Do others have to lose so we can win?

Cigarettes took them to medals, which took them to guns, which took them to radios, which took them to jeeps. By midnight, Samad had won three jeeps, seven guns, fourteen medals, the land attached to Gozan's sister's house, and an IOU for four horses, three chickens and a duck.

Do others have to lose so we can win?

We must dress to make other women jealous and to attract men.

This was a hard, unforgiving world. The only way to survive was to beat it at its own game.

The others forgot the work and the weather watching them throw. It was art. A thousand dollars a throw in Madison Square Garden wouldn't have gotten any more breathless suspense. It would have just been more people holding in.

I'm not going to abandon the power game, but I'm going to be sure use it to my advantage.

When you go to a club abroad and play against one from your own country, you are part of the enemy.

I have always enjoyed my cricket, be it home or abroad.

The point is that there are few opportunities in top games. For this you need a striker who has the absolute will to achieve the goal.

Do I like being No. 1? Absolutely. Who doesn't?

I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.

You don't play the game to lose. But I also understand that if people are giving their 100% effort, giving it all they've got, it's going to be accepted.