Quotes About Competition

We crowd ourselves at work, then claim that there are too many competitions in the world.

You can try to mix capitalism and socialism together, but you cannot be both at the same time! In the end, one system will always take over the other. Resulting in a true/false friendship.

If we compete with ourselves and not with others, then it does not matter who is behind us or ahead of us; our goal is to become and achieve all we are capable of being and doing, and this becomes the measure of our satisfaction.

They both believed that the enemy of better is best, and the tomb of the extra-ordinary is the ordinary.

Sport-das ist eine Sache. Aber sportlich das ist jemand, der die Spielregeln beachtet.

Sports provide us with dangerous metaphors. A sporting contest is a contest: a game of winners and losers.

Smiling, she went for his throat and almost had him, when—using a move that was all sorts of illegal—he flipped her again so her front pressed into the leaf-laden ground, her wrists still locked in his iron grip and pinned above her head. "Cheater." "So says the woman who tried to kick my balls into my throat," he pointed out, even as he licked the salt off the skin of her neck in a lazy and highly provocative move.

This was war.Who the hell cared about playing fair?

Bitch wants to play games, let's play games.

What about you, pretty boy? You gonna stand there and let your girlfriend do all the work?" "What?" Watch my seriously hot woman put you on your fat ass and look sexy while she's doing it? Oh, yeah, I'm definitely game for that.

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If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have powerful motives—personal and patriotic—to help one another succeed and comfort one another when they fail. But at the same time they all compete for history's blessing.

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.40

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

We want new clothing, more clothing, pretty clothing, because rather than looking at clothing as something to cover the shame of our nakedness, we view it as a sign of status, a source of happiness, or a way to compete or show off.

We were playing a game against an unknown and unforgiving opponent. The stakes were terrible—play well or die—but we didn't even know the ground rules.

Not every dancer receive a noble award Some receive punishment instead.

The candidates hit the floor like Travolta, ready with their moves, knowing that the spotlight is going to find them and illuminate every glistening thing: both sequins and sweat.

The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.

protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage of the reconstruction were part of a vast protectionist racket whereby the U.S. government had created their markets with war, barred their competitors from even entering the race, then paid them to do the work, while guaranteeing them a profit to boot - all at taxpayer expense.

I have closed the gaping abyss of anarchy, and I have unscrambled chaos, I have cleansed the Revolution, ennobled the common people, and restored the authority of kings. I have stirred all men to competition, I have rewarded merit wherever I found it, I have pushed back the boundaries of greatness.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.