Quotes About Competition

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

Will America lead...and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.

He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner.

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.

Play the game with a smile.

Guys ask me, 'Why are you always smiling?' Are you kidding? I'm in the NFL, that's why!

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

I always want to take everybody down! But I think you can do it with a smile on your face and be nice and talking to them. You don't have to be mean or rude.

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.

It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

You mustn't smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.