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Quotes About Competition

It was apparent...that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong.
~ Donald E. Westlake
The TIE fighter pilots chasing the Falcon were among the best in the Empire. But they couldn't compete with Han Solo. Either they weren't good enough, or they weren't crazy enough. Only a lunatic would have plunged his ship into a suicidal journey through these asteroids.
~ Donald F. Glut
Ain't no such thing as communist baseball team!
~ Donald Hays
Whosoever insists on winning must play at trivial games; no interesting victory is ever assured.
~ Donald Kingsbury
To some Softball is a game; to others it's Life.
~ Jennie Finch
Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.
~ Peter Drucker
Sports is human life in microcosm.
~ Howard Cosell
Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.
~ Steve McQueen
If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete.
~ Sam Walton
I've never played for a draw in my life.
~ Alex Ferguson
Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.
~ Tommy Prothro
Life is great, football is better.
~ Steve Sabol
Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.
~ Arthur Ashe
The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.
~ Ludwig Boltzmann
You ain't the only one that's tryna be the only one.
~ Drake
We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
Life is good. Football is better.
~ Steve Sabol
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.
~ Terence McKenna
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
~ Wernher von Braun
Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match
~ Jimmy Connors
You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle.
~ Mike Tyson
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
~ Ishmael Reed
The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the World.
~ Sasha Cohen
You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.
~ Georges St-Pierre