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Quotes About Competition

Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.
~ Megan McCafferty
Play like you're in first, train like you're in second,
~ Megan Shull
Blessed are the ones who have enemies, for they have a vital reason to be better in every way.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For mankind, universe is a battle arena against universe; there is no room for crying!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Lake is jealous of mountain; mountain is jealous of lake!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The good may lose; the bad may win! Remember this! Because knowing this increases the chance of the good to win!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.
~ Melina Marchetta
He came third in the state for woodwork," Francesca explains. "We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.
~ Melina Marchetta
How could you possibly want to compete about who suffered most?' Beatriss said sadly. 'For if you want to covet that prize, take it! Take it, but don't bring my child into your bitterness.
~ Melina Marchetta
They have a quick verbal exchange but only get to cover the alphabet from A to F, outdoing each other with the most choice of words.
~ Melina Marchetta
Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.
~ Melody Carlson
Cities are the world's new vacant niches, and the blackbird is one species that has embarked on the road toward speciating to maximize its profits from this horn of plenty,
~ Unknown
Kaggle.16 Kaggle, which is owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet,
~ Unknown
the closest I can come to describing what the theater is like. A barbaric free-for-all in which should you ever win, you are for sure going to fall flat on your face or your ass.9
~ Unknown
Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.
~ Mia Couto
Todas as manhãs a gazela acorda sabendo que tem que correr mais veloz que o leão ou será morta. Todas as manhãs o leão acorda sabendo que deve correr mais rápido que a gazela ou morrerá de fome. Não importa se és um leão ou uma gazela: quando o Sol desponta o melhor é começares a correr.
~ Mia Couto
You don't just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.
~ Mia Hamm
If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
~ Mia Hamm
The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
~ Mia Hamm
It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.
~ Mia Hamm
Each day I attempted to play up to their level... and I was improving faster than I ever dreamed possible.
~ Mia Hamm
All my life I've been playing up, meaning I've challenged myself with players older, bigger, more skillful, more experienced -- in short, better than me.
~ Mia Hamm