Quotes About Competition

I'm going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

There are only two seasons - winter and baseball.

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm...gets eaten.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Blue punch buggie!

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

No one will win the battle of the sexes, there is too much flirting with the enemy.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

That's the way of the world. Sometimes you eat. Sometimes you get eaten.

A man in a business suit stepped around me, barking, "Excuse me," and glaring, as if I was slowing him down from getting his asshole-of-the-year award. He

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

Time was, you were pretty sure that the best food was the kind that was the easiest to find. Or the kind you consume at a stadium, with a game going on in front of you. This was before everyone watched the Food Network and Top Chef and the sadistic reality shows hosted by that angry British chef who screams at his "cheftestants" until the veins in his neck bulge and his shrinking victims either cry or go to the hospital with heart troubles. Well, my friend, the game has changed.

Los celos retrospectivos (por su imposibilidad de rencor, por su falta de desafío, por su improbable competencia) son espantosamente crueles.

There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

I tried my best, but she pulled ahead, and I was loath to shout after her. Instead, I practiced throwing rude and unflattering thoughts in her direction. Killy glanced over her shoulder at me, and her pace slowed to a very fast walk.

What followed was even worse. The drive to return the papacy to Rome led to a complicated, often sordid, intensely competitive period in which two, and sometimes even three, rival popes clamored for political and religious recognition.

Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.

Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish.

The problem with keeping up with the Germans is that German industrial exports have the lowest price elasticities in the world.46 In plain English, Germany makes really great stuff that everyone wants and will pay more for in comparison to all the alternatives.

The secret impetus behind legalism is its competitiveness. The point is not just to win: it's to beat everyone else.

As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.