Quotes About Competition

I am not a sports girl.

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

For most of its existence, Christianity has been the most intolerant of world faiths, doing its best to eliminate all competitors, with Judaism a qualified exception, for which (thanks to some thoughts from Augustine of Hippo) it found space to serve its own theological and social purposes.

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.

All sports are games of inches.

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.

It's not how high you jump, how fast you run. All you guys here can run faster, jump higher. But I'll tell you, I can get my friend Larry Bird and the two of us will play any two of you and when it's all said and done, we will get the last laugh.

But what puts him over the top, in my estimation, is the job he has done putting America back on top in the global game. He's brought back the passion and sense of pride in playing for the red, white, and blue, by getting NBA All-Stars to understand they are playing for the name on the front of the jersey, U.S.A. Since he's become coach, Team USA has played with the utmost sense of urgency, bringing back the gold medal to where it belongs.

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and the most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. Fancy gallops to take part in that duel, unconstrained by any certain articulation of the laws of that unseen game.

I don't think that Prokofiev ever treated me seriously as a composer; he considered only Stravinsky a rival and never missed a chance to take a shot at him. I remember once he started telling me some vile story about Stravinsky. I cut him off.

Prokofiev and I never did become friends, probably because Prokofiev was not inclined towards friendly relations in general. He was a hard man and didn't seem interested in anything than himself and his music.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.

Violence is the way of the world because competition is the way of life-perpetuation. Without violence there can be no competition, and without competition there can be no life. Something dies for every instant that something else lives.

obviously someone will! The issue is rather, will the most sympathetic person get there first?

There are the gods of place and the gods of commerce, and if you have to bet who's going to win out, put your money on money every time.

Everyone says what they're supposed to, the usual clichés like "She's a fighter." Yeah, Danny thinks. There are two fighters in any fight, and one of them loses.

And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.

Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most do not. The sense of community falls victim to this struggle.

Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.