Quotes About Competition

Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him.

Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him. The goal of the call of God is His satisfaction, not simply that we should do something for Him. We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles. Are we more devoted to service than we are to Jesus Christ Himself?

Bear patiently with a rival.

The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Autumn, not spring, is swimming's preseason. It is a time to build an aerobic base, develop a routine, and set goals for the year. The few meets held between August and January are dress rehearsals to real racing, which begins in January.

You spend a decade thinking about the 2000 Olympics and they are nothing more than an elusive possibility, a faint light on the horizon's edge. Now they stand right in front of you. Press out, follow through, head down, stretch to the wall. Touch first or second. A missed taper would be damnation. A third place would be agony unlike any other.

Now here come your friends racing onto the scene! They're ready for football in their jerseys and jeans! So you quickly choose sides and mark off the goals, using jackets and earmuffs and telephone poles. Then with one mighty kick the game starts to click. And oh, what a game! So many trick plays! You sneak to the mailbox, then streak the wrong way! But then a long pass over driveway and grass is caught near the earmuffs-- a touchdown at last! And everyone sighs as you end in a tie.

Life is a competition, but it is not a race against anyone else. The real journey is against yourself and the true victory is being able to maintain your humanity.

All's fair in love and war — and coffee.

Let men be men -- and let women be women -- Women competing with men- does not help us -- We have better things to do -- like being mothers.

How do you like that, Corbray? You're upstaging yourself.

We outrank the Agency here in the homeland. If they want a dick fight, we'll give them one.

We outrank the Agency here in the homeland. If they want a dick fight, we'll give them one.

In college, books assigned for class were read as competitive sport - the more critically, the better.

La competizione non è per tutti e soprattutto non seleziona i migliori, solo i meno sensibili.

They say that chess was born in bloodshed.

This variation has to be played as dynamically as possible, not reduced to the defensive immobility you imposed. Its aim is to queen a pawn - that's the essential threat. Without some compensation for the initial knight sacrifice, you face a losing endgame.

Today education has become a training ground for competition.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

Unless a company has an economic moat protecting its business, competition will soon arrive on its doorstep and eat away at its profits. Wall Street is littered with the dead husks of companies that went from hero to zero in a heartbeat.