Quotes About Competition

The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.

Few Allied generals can have hated each other more than Patton and Montgomery.

I am not saying that personal development is more important than winning; on the contrary, I am saying that enjoying the journey of self-discovery, by removing some of the pressure and angst associated with winning at all costs, is one way of helping you to win more often.

Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport.

I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no harm in envying even your best friend a little

I thought the issue was settled until at the end he said, 'Listen, pal, if I can't play sports, you're going to play them for me,' and I lost part of myself to him, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

There's room at the top, they are telling you still. But first you must learn how to smile as you kill!

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All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. HENRY MITCHELL

Natural selection is intolerant of idle verbosity.

Nevertheless, the DARPA Robotics Challenge did what it was designed to do: expose the limits of today's robotic systems.

A workable platform has five elements: information flows smoothly; property rights are protected; people can be trusted to live up to their promises; side effects on third parties are curtailed; and competition is fostered.

His general shotmaking ability is optimum. He will try anything. "Look at the way he hit that ball, gave it the casual play," Graebner says to himself. "Instead of trying a silly shot and missing it, he tries a silly shot and makes it." If Ashe wins the next point, he will have broken Graebner, and the match will be, in effect, even.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

There is no better education than rap battling in terms of performance. It makes you fearless.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

In this age, you must be relentlessly remarkable to stay relevant, if not you will be relegated.

Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.