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Quotes About Competition

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.
~ Unknown
In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable
~ Garrett Hardin
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
~ Albert Einstein
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
~ Jesse Owens
If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
~ Cale Yarborough
The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.
~ Unknown
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
~ Alphonse Karr
You know, Jacob, if it weren't for the fact that we're natural enemies and that you're also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you.
~ Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship.
~ Barbara Holland
No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.
~ Alistair Cooke
We are both great men but I have succeeded better in keeping it a profound secret than he has.
~ Bill Nye
You think you're funny! You think you're funny Cena, huh? The only pose you're going to be doing tonight is lying on your back with me on top!
~ Randy Orton
The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.
~ Jake LaMotta
I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
Whoever tells the best story wins.
~ John Quincy Adams
Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.
~ Gary Lineker
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
~ Bill Shankly
Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.
~ Henry Ford
To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.
~ Kerri Walsh
It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!
~ Steven Weinberg
Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him
~ Murray Walker
Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.
~ John Madden
You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.
~ John Madden
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
~ Robert B. Parker