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Quotes About Competition

If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let's go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].
~ Bryan Singer
There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
~ Bryant H. McGill
The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.
~ Burt Rutan
Usually, when it's a story about three women all being involved with the same man, it ends in some eyeballs being scratched out and some weaves being snatched off.
~ Cameron Diaz
Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants.
~ Carolyn Hart
No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?
~ Charles Lever
[Muhammad] Ali had [Jo] Frazier , that man had the joker, Coke had Pepsi and [Donald] Trump had [Barack] Obama, or 16 primary opponents or the entire political establishment.
~ Chuck Todd
I love beating the men. When I beat 'em in the ratings, when I beat 'em in the salary, I always say, 'One more for the girls.
~ Cristina Saralegui
Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities.
~ Darren Shan
The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.
~ Dave Beard
I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.
~ Don Imus
Do I play tennis? Man, I had one of the baddest overhead rights of anyone. Bam!
~ Don King
I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.
~ Dylan McDermott
A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
~ Earl Wilson
Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.
~ Edward Young
The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.
~ Elihu Root
Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
Why'd you have to say that there's always someone who can do it better than I can And don't you think that I know that walkin' on water won't make me a miracle man
~ Elvis Costello
There's only one Mark McGwire. The man walked over 160 times. Just think. If he walks 60 times, he might hit 100 homers.
~ Eric Davis
Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.
~ Faith Hunter
I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.
~ Fantasia Barrino
Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek