Quotes About Competition

Know your enemies as well as you know your allies. Know them better. Make their business yours.

Kaden landed on his stomach, clinging to the log as Rafe emerged from the mud below him. Rafe wiped the muck from his face and looked up. "Concede?" Kaden asked. Rafe saluted, graciously giving Kaden his due, but then smiled. "In hell.

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

Life is one game where people don't play fair.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

He had to do them, to show he was the best.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

My mother insulted me, I insulted her, Jeanne, the stepgrandmother, insulted everything in a skirt, and my grandfather just kept right on drinking. We picked at our food, competing for who could eat the least. When

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

Instauramos unas reglas mágicas para esas partidas de ping-pong. El ganador podía hacer lo que quisiese con el cuerpo del otro, salvo besarlo en los labios. Sucedía que el que perdía era tan feliz como el que ganaba.

el poder es una escalera por la cual, cuando se empieza a ascender, no hay ni final ni descenso, salvo la caída, que a muchos les acontece pues arriba no hay lugar para todos.

An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master.

Over preparing for your competition is better than under-preparing.

Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters.

The great compete not only against others, but against themselves.

The higher you rise the smaller your enemies.

Train your competitors (this makes you the master)

It was a very hard race from the word go with a combination of great runners and a tough course," he wrote. "I had my problems winning. I felt several times like giving into the pain and letting Gary [sic] win but I just couldn't. I just kept driving myself harder and harder, longer and longer.

Physical fitness determines where the wall that represents your physical limit is placed. Mental fitness determines how close you are able to get to that limit in competition.

If I was ever going to win Ironman, I was going to have to beat the man who rinsed his cottage cheese

Because you never know exactly what you'll find inside that black box until you open it, there is a temptation to hope—perhaps not quite consciously—that your next race won't be one of those grinding affairs. This hope is a poor coping skill. Bracing yourself—always expecting your next race to be your hardest yet—is a much more mature and effective way to prepare mentally for competition.

The ultimate compliment for me in my peak training years was being passed on my easy runs by a runner who had a marathon time more than an hour slower than mine. I'd say to myself, "He's wearing himself out today. I'm building myself up.