Quotes About Competition

both tariff rates and domestic charges for the use of railroad freight blatantly discriminated against the South, impeding its ability to grow and compete. The rates charged for shipping goods along the nation's railways had for decades been rigged to protect Northern markets from Southern goods.

I lived to learn that in the world of sport all men win alike, but lose differently;

On the second day of a Classic at Olympic and World Championship level, the "speed and endurance" test length totaled 22 miles, which included a 2-mile steeplechase, and a 5-mile cross-country phase.

Daddy tolerated this, but her exploded on Sunday night after the last competitor had left: "Goddamnit, Dot, horse show people are crazy, but dog show people are the lunatic fringe of humanity." We never hosted the Specialty Show again.

There are no second-place finishers—you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser—nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.

We win, and they celebrate victory. We share business , like always is.

One of the prizes of old age is its release from competition.

The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

You pitch outside, you throw inside," he liked to say.

wonder if you can brush your teeth and get into your pajamas before Dad does.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.

I ain't never known you to fight over a woman, Cardone," Clint remarked. "This one I will." -Clint & Lynx

If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

By the time I get home, I'm still stunned. When Matt won the mountain bike at the church raffle last year, I was happy for him. When his father's friend invited Matt to a Lakers playoff game, I thought that was great too. Why can't he be glad when something good happens to me?

kind of forgotten that he was supposed to be my archnemesis. And every time I thought about Brock Benson coming to town, I realized that Drew and I now had something in common. Something big. I did my best to relax and think more clearly about all of this. Why see him as my competitor? Why not just view him as someone who understood my business and had similar goals?

Since there is such desperation to hire black faculty, black professors are constantly being wooed from campus to campus with higher salary offers. Not surprisingly, blacks now make more money than whites with equivalent Ph.D.s.602

Yliopistossa kohtaa eloonjäämisvietin degeneroituja muotoja.

What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that's why he's number two.

In high school I barely made the rodeo team. But I wasn't good enough to start, so I just rode the bench.

I could tell by their audible gasps that the people on the beach were jealous of me when I found five shark's teeth. Locating them wasn't really the problem, but pulling them out of my leg was.