Quotes About Competition

No woman (or man) becomes a corporate manager, gets tenure at a university, or is elected to public office by showing their capacity for cooperation, sharing, emotional sensitivity, and nurturing.

Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

Though snails are exceedingly slow, There is one thing I'd like to know. If I out run 'em round the yard, How come they beat me to the chard?

The Iron Chef America producers would reveal to all the competitors three possibilities for the secret ingredient twenty-four hours before contests were shot.

Theoretically, politics was about bridging divides. Realistically, it was mostly every man (and woman) for themselves.

I don't play any game that I can't win.

They beat me to it." And that was when things really got weird. I mean, my mom had broken into Sub-level Two.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke winning it twice proves you are the best.

The thickness of the Amazon marketplace — the ready availability of so many buyers and sellers — is self-reinforcing.

Meanwhile, some private schools even enroll students at birth. At the Wetherby School in England, a school Princes William and Harry attended, the spaces reserved by newborns fill up early each month, and the school advises women scheduling cesarean sections to have them on the first of the month, if possible, to get a place before all the spots are gone.

Building a better mousetrap isn't always rewarded when the mice have a say in the matter

Baseball is like live math.

In poker, you want to play the weaker guys. In chess, it's the opposite.

When you play No Limit Hold'em, the ideal strategy is to take minimal risk, do little bluffing, and hope that weaker players call you when you have a strong hand. But that's the perfect world. Sometimes you'll face opponents that play very conservatively and will rarely pay you off when you have the goods.

Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees.

It changes from track-to-track, but when you are behind someone, you know after a few laps where they are weaker and stronger around the lap. You try to position yourself in the best possible way to attack them at a point they don't expect or at the point that they are just not as strong as you. That's how you try to get past.

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

I looked at the race, and I said, 'Look. Hillary Clinton is going to be hard to beat.' Another bad prediction on my part, because she's turned out a lot weaker than I thought.

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

Sometimes, when we play against weaker teams, everyone says, 'Oh, you won because you played weaker teams.'

It is always easier to accept defeat when you were the weaker team.

In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.

When you are not winning, the coach is more or less the weakest person in the team who can be replaced.

I always loved 'The Weakest Link' and how brutal Anne Robinson was on it.