Quotes About Competition

Winner gets to pick their spoils

There's no crying in baseball! —Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own

A guy's definition of baseball: you don't have to buy the other team dinner to get game.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. —Earl Wilson

There are people my age competing at the Olympics and I still try to enter Walmart through the exit-only door.

You don't have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.

Knight takes Knight," I called into the cloudy night air. "Check.

Playing cat and mouse is generally only fun for the cat.

I looked from the gadget-readied spear and body armor to my slender staff of plain old wood and leather duster. My dick is better than your dick, I said.

If she were in a race for her life, that roar was the starter pistol. If God were the referee, He had just shouted Go.

Race me back. Beat me there, and I'll tell you." I blinked. "What kind of kindergarten crap is that?" His grey eyes flashed with anger. "You want to know what it's like? Beat me down the beach." "Of all the ridiculous, immature nonsense," I said. Then I hooked a foot behind Thomas's calf, shoved him down to the sand, and took off down the beach at a dead sprint.

If he stayed close enough to Maggie for long enough, the dog might wind up with more education than me. Then there'd be no talking to him.

but one of them had rolled a higher initiative this round

You've played me at my own game, and ably. I thought you capable of nothing but overt action. Clearly I underestimated you." "Don't feel bad," I said. "I mean, I look so stupid.

As melhores pessoas anseiam pela meritocracia, enquanto as pessoas medíocres tem medo dela.

Life is a food chain, and it's better to be the diner than the dinner.

As for working with a partner, he didn't like that either. It cut the score right down the middle. It put an apple on your head, and handed the other guy a shotgun. Because grifters, it seemed, suffered an irresistible urge to beat their colleagues. There was little glory in whipping a fool—hell, fools were made to be whipped. But to take a professional, even if it cost you in the long run, ah, that was something to polish your pride.

the television money comes in, the top couple of clubs hog most of it. In England the

They lost an awful lot of games by one run, which is the mark of a bad team. They also lost innumerable games by fourteen runs or so. This is the mark of a terrible team.

We were playing a story game Bucky had invented called the Last Supper. It consisted of allowing those evil, avenging creatures of God—horseflies—to light on the exposed skin of your arm or leg and take a bite. At that point, you make up an epitaph, which you deliver to the horsefly as he eats his last meal, and then you flatten the little bastard. The speeches are voted on by those in attendance, and the best speech wins a bottle of wine.

Competing to be the best feeds on imitation. Competing to be unique thrives on innovation.

The first test of a strategy is whether your value proposition is different from your rivals. If you are trying to serve the same customers and meet the same needs and sell at the same relative price, then by Porter's definition, you don't have a strategy.

Porter defines the value proposition as the answer to three fundamental questions (see figure 4-1): Which customers are you going to serve? Which needs are you going to meet? What relative price will provide acceptable value for customers and acceptable profitability for the company?

Instead of competing to be the best, companies can—and should—compete to be unique. This concept is all about value.