Quotes About Competition

A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf is cyclical and there's not much between the teams.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle

Always compete upwards, as otherwise you'll find yourself reduced as a human.

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

I love to talk about sports. I love sports it's just something that's in my nature.

We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.

If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.

it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.

Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.

So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.