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Quotes About Competition

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.
~ George D. Prentice
In sports and journeys men are knowne. [In sports and journeys men are known.]
~ George Herbert
I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.
~ Ginuwine
When I train against men, I always find that I push myself harder to my absolute maximum.
~ Lindsey Vonn
The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I love the man that [Peter Berg] is, the father that he is, and the leader. We push each other in a way. It's competitive.
~ Mark Wahlberg
That's what really seems to be the more difficult aspect - to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world.
~ Michael Chang
Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.
~ Mickey Mantle
Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
~ Muhammad Ali
I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.
~ Muhammad Ali
Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.
~ Myrtle Reed
Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.
~ Neil Kinnock
That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky!
~ Nicola Roberts
No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.
~ Norman Mailer
I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.
~ Paul McCartney
A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sports are an acceptable way for men to show emotion. A guy who won't hug his kid will slip a guy a tongue in a sports bar when his team wins.
~ Richard Jeni
A man can never compete with a woman's father
~ Richelle Mead
You can't let a man like this beat you.
~ Ricky Hatton
By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.
~ Henry Ford
What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?
~ Homer
Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.
~ Honore de Balzac