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Quotes About Competition

You've the beat of a dancer to a measure or harmonious rush of a porpoise at the prow where the racers all win easily— like centaurs' legs in tune, as when kettledrums compete; nose rigid and suede nostrils spread, a light left hand on the rein, till well—this is a rhapsody.
~ Marianne Moore
I need to remember that where my ego is concerned, the only way to win is not to play.
~ Unknown
I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.
~ Marilyn Manson
Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a perennial loser.
~ O. J. Simpson
I don't know which is stronger: the thrill of winning or the fear of failure. I don't know which one affects me most. I don't know where the middle is.
~ Tony McCoy
Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.
~ David Dreman
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
~ Fred Perry
If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.
~ George A. Sheehan
Not all races are run on a track. And not all finish lines are marked by ticker tape.
~ Toni Sorenson
If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
~ Bill Gates
You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.
~ Nadia Giosia
When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.
~ Tom Brady
The perpetual struggle for room and food.
~ Thomas Malthus
Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me.
~ Ray Kroc
The metallic silver coating found on fast-food game cards.
~ Rich Hall
What was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me... no competition... best thing that ever happened to you.
~ Suzanne Collins
He who comes first, eats first.
~ Unknown
I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.
~ Herschel Walker
Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.
~ Peg Bracken
When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
~ Bebe Neuwirth
The food world is more crowded these days, but I think that there are more opportunities.
~ Dorie Greenspan
A patient dog will have no bone to eat because other dogs have eaten
~ Ojo Michael E.
Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
~ Ludwig von Mises