Quotes About Competition

War is the statesman's game

Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They give an amazing number of geeks things to talk about. In the old days we settled for, "Hello, how are you?"

he followed the ball down to the other end of the court, stopped, stared at me with contempt, and then did the strangest thing. He winked. Like he was flicking me off with his eyelid.

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

Soccer is not about justice. It's a drama - and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that.

I had noticed, even then, that there were certain women whom other women instinctively disliked, and that these women invariably had more bait in the water than the women who disliked them.

Dear Miz Fitz, My boyfriend is superhot so a lot of girls think up reasons to talk to him. It drives me... ...Out of my Mind Miz Fitz sez: Maybe he is too hot for you. Send me his photo, name, and phone number. I will check him out and get back to you.

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.

Actually, some of the tackles looked more like assassination attempts to me.

It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.

Sibling rivalry is further reinforced in dysfunctional families by the fact that all the children are subsisting on minimal nurturance, and are therefore without resources to give to each other. Moreover, competition for the little their parents have to give creates even fiercer rivalries.

but Yakima beat him to it.

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.

As if we didn't have enough weapons already. But that's human nature, we've always got to go one better, to increase the terror another notch.

The game is changing' .. :The game is the same, the stakes are rising.

Troblum, darling, are you going to make a run for it? Tell you what, I'll give you a five-minute head start. Do you think your fat legs can reach the bottom of the stairs by then? Will you need to sit down and take a breather?

Oscar's Merc 1001 coupe drove him through the main gate at seven forty-five and slid right into the Operations Director's parking slot. He smiled at the few envious stares the car earned him from other members of the team as they pulled up outside the administration block.

A focus on steady, long-term growth may be unheard of now in most public companies, but it was standard operating procedure for corporations in the 1950s and '60s, until we wilted in the face of foreign competition and the global economy and became obsessed with shareholder value.

When F. W. Woolworth opened his first store, a merchant on the same street tried to fight the new competition. He hung out a big sign: "Doing business in this same spot for over fifty years." The next day Woolworth also put out a sign. It read: "Established a week ago: no old stock.

Although some ancient Egyptian and Greek texts express animosity toward Jews, the rise of intense hostility to and fear of them largely coincides with the rise of Christianity. The relationship between adherents of the two religions always has reflected a paradox: The two faiths were both very similar and very different, which created intense competition.

One way of understanding what followed is to recall that Jews were the people who said no. Offered a new form of relationship with God, they said they preferred the one they had, and this rejection set off several hundred years of rivalry and mutual recrimination, as the two groups competed for followers until the fourth century of the common era, when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire and thus seemed to win the battle.

I like to play chess. I moved to a small town, and nobody played chess there, but one guy challenged me to checkers. I always thought it was kind of a simple game, but I accepted. And he beat me nine or ten games in a row. That's sort of like living in a small town. It's a simpler game, but it's played to a higher level.

Every always says that their product is the best," said Mr.Wang. "They have to talk about how much better they are than the competition, and usually they believe it. But the truth is that it's much easier once you realize that your product is inferior. Then you can focus on just doing business!

He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.