Quotes About Competition

Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

My dad was a good competitor. I know he'd think I was a little off the charts.

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

President Obama filled in as the coach of his daughter Sasha's basketball team. Sasha evidently listened to her Dad, because all she did was drive straight down the center and piss everyone off.

Our dad made everything competitive for me and brother. It always was a world championship, a national championship, Big 10 championship. It was always at stake in everything we did.

He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.

You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap.

What's the point of dating without games? How do you know if you're winning or losing?

I'm afraid that if I raced you on the street I'd push you to your death.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

Competition is the death of art.

You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That's why so many rednecks die in strange ways.

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

followed me to the sideboard like Willie Pep chasing some little pisher around the ring.

Probablemente no habría sido mucho peor (tal vez habría sido mucho mejor) buscar consuelo en las dos monjas del autobuses la avenida Lyons en lugar de en una persona que se delataba en los placeres de las corrupciones habituales e insignificantes que proliferan allí donde la gente compite incluso por las más mínimas ventajas del rango.

pero el placer estriba en no poseer a la persona. El placer es esto. Tener a otro contendiente en la habitación contigo.

It's very hard to master and if you're not learning all the time, you will fail. That being said, humility in the face of the game is extremely different than humility in the face of your opponents.

Pharisees spend too much time around other Pharisees. As a result Pharisees (whether the Jewish or Christian variety) neglect wider issues, narrow their vision, and compete to achieve an artificial piety.

what about grace? How rare to find a church competing to "out-grace" its rivals.

Miami Dolphins lineman, wrote in his book On God's Squad, "I guarantee you Christ would be the toughest guy who ever played this game. . . . If he were alive today I would picture a six-foot-six-inch 260-pound defensive tackle who would always make the big plays and would be hard to keep out of the backfield for offensive linemen like myself.