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Quotes About Competition

'Strictly' is a bit like scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup Final or sinking the final putt in the Ryder Cup - only a few people get the opportunity to do it, and they have got to be famous.
~ Anton du Beke
How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.
~ Dwight David Eisenhower
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course...the space between your ears.
~ Bobby Jones
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
~ Mark Twain
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes.
~ George Best
I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.
~ Lennox Lewis
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
~ Emo Philips
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
~ Lily Tomlin
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
~ Muhammad Ali
I was on a game show. When I lost, they gave me a lovely parting gift. It was a comb.
~ Unknown
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.
~ Eric Sykes
A guy at work went in for a competition and won a trip to China. He's out there now...trying to win a trip back!
~ Jerry Dennis
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
~ William Faulkner
The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
~ John Steinbeck
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
~ Emo Philips
Don't steal, don't lie, don't cheat, don't sell drugs. The government hates competition.
~ Unknown
Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet.
~ Will Ferrell
Woman putting other woman down is like telling the world that you are more worried about your competition than your own progress.
~ Unknown
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
You go back to the start of time. One cave guy was fighting another cave guy because his club was bigger than his or his woman had longer hair. Thats competition.
~ Dale Earnhardt
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
~ Betty Friedan
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
~ Betty Friedan
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
~ Unknown