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Quotes About Competition

Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.
~ Tom Morello
Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!
~ Deborah Wiles
We hate it when our friends become successful.
~ Morrissey
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
~ Isaac Hanson
I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
~ Zac Efron
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.
~ Juha Vaatainen
Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.
~ David Buss
Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.
~ Grantland Rice
Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
~ Xunzi
Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
~ Thorstein Veblen
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
~ Carrot Top
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.
~ Charles Darwin
There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.
~ Warren Buffett
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
~ Garry Kasparov
It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.
~ Bernard Darwin
Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?
~ Paul J. Zak
The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.
~ Tom Arnold
I just play the game. I hit a shot and wait for the next guy to hit his. I don't think between shots-that's my nature.
~ Vijay Singh
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
~ Robert Redford
It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
~ Barry Mann
Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.
~ Richard Branson
I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.
~ Mike Tyson