Quotes About Competition

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.

It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.

Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

Victory passes back and forth between men.

The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.

I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]