Quotes About Competition

And I don't want to be a part of the 'who's got the bigger sword?' contest you two have going on, either. I don't do cockfights. I just want to do my job and do it well.

volleyball. Even being "almost the best" would be alright.

Do you play football for Pittsburgh? Then why are you such a Steeler?!

I don't like all the glory, hand-shaking and general run of things after a tournament.

I can't ever remember anyone winning a tournament like that.

It's a game of constant adjustment and the guy that adjusts the best is the best player.

It was a rare moment in American history—unprecedented—when educated women were not only wanted but competed for.

Both Hegel and Darwin can be mis-used to support a belief in the "survival of the fittest".

Hunger Games.

Jim Brown will give you that leg and then take it away from you. Jim Taylor will give it to you and then ram it through your chest.

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

The objective is to win -- fairly, squarely, decently, by the rules, but to win.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.

I always love when everybody else is really bringing their game, because it's only going to make the movie better; it just makes you work harder and they work harder and everybody is trying to get their little bit in. It's competitive in a constructive way.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends.

Sto neprijatelja i jedan prijatelj ucinice te bogatim covekom u poslu. U bilo kom poslu.

Tell me this," Pudge would often ask me, as he sat and read about the exorbitant funeral of a rival. "If he was the guy with all the power, then how come he's riding in the lead car, stuffed inside a coffin?

Peloton with a large monitor and spin shoes hanging on the back. Yoga mat. Weights. It all screams of an aging Olympian going soft around the middle, losing his edge, and worrying about it. This fills me with a sadistic spurt of pleasure.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren't are inaccessible." PHOEBE TRAEGER

He didn't say a word about the fact that her Vespa was nowhere in sight. You know what this means, right? he asked. You're at my mercy. He grinned and she sighed. One hundred thousand sperm and he'd been the fastest. -Chloe about Todd

Sure, good things come to those who wait—but they're the leftovers from those who got there first." Chloe Traeger