Quotes About Competition

We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.

What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.

Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.

Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

Politics is a blood sport.

In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Currency warfare is the most destructive form of economic warfare.

I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.