Quotes About Competition

Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1.

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

The final score after eight innings is Giants 3, Padres 2.

The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.

There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

They throw Winfield out at second, but he's safe.

Tito Fuentes is safe at second with a triple.

Turner pulls into second with a sun-blown double.

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.

if you are successful, most people are envious and they covet your success

A third worker boasted of walking 547 miles in ten weeks of work. He was later topped by another, who posted a Fitbit log showing 820 miles in twelve-and-a-half weeks.

Women politicians have definitely been known to fuck over other women. Democratic Louisiana

We live in a culture right now that pits girls against each other. We are brought up socially to be in competition with each other -who has the best body, more boyfriends, better clothes. And this kind of competition can be devastating on female friendships because it emphasizes a mentality that there isn't enough to go around, Enough love. Enough attention. Enough success. But there is . There is enough to share with your girlfriends.

since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present.

He reakons that all declarations of war ought to be made into a kind of festival, with entrance tickets and music, like they have at bullfights. Then the ministers and generals of the two countries would have to come into the ring, wearing boxer shorts, and armed with rubber trunchons, and have a go at each other. Whoever is left on his feet, his country is declared the winner. That would be simpler and fairer than things are out here, where the wrong people are fighting each other.

Either way I don't come first, which for some stupid reason bothers hell out of me, having grown up with the notion that I always had to be number one. Family heritage, don't you know?

They glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival. But in this kind of jungle you could never be sure where the real danger lurked.

General Electric rather miraculously came back with a bid of $554,000. But Westinghouse, whose AC system was inherently cheaper and more efficient, bid $399,000. The exposition went with Westinghouse, and helped change the history of electricity.

When you're in a pissin' contest with a skunk, make sure you got plenty of piss.