Quotes About Competition

What bothers you most, the fact that I beat your score on the shooting range, or that I broke your nose and kneed you in the nuts?

The world played chess, while I played checkers.

If you go in thinking you're going to lose, you've already lost. If you go in thinking you're going to win, you'll be disappointed if you lose. So just go in to the competition with the attitude that you're going to compete, which is all you can control anyway.

Well, I guess that's why they let the horses run the races. Sometimes a horse will surprise you and win.

Then a few started getting scholarships. Money talks, friend. The complainers got quieter than a nun in the confessional." "He

you didn't get that self-assurance by just getting up every day and driving into an office. It came from competition, from putting yourself at risk of losing, then winning anyway.

But I know you. You'll hem and haw for a bit, but in the end, you'll go because you hate to lose—at anything.

I guess that's why they run the races," he said, "to see which horse actually wins.

What you inherited without lifting a finger—except to poison a few brothers—I fought for.

The race to make more money to keep up with the rich, he says, is the reason Americans are spending less time with children and less time sleeping. It's also the reason Americans feel less happy, since happiness is partly determined by how well we're doing compared with those around us. The race, he said, will only get more destructive as the rich get richer and more numerous

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

The roar of the crowd had thundered through both fighters' veins like a second pulse. Strike

If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

For there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.

Concerns about relative position are a hard fact of human nature. No biologist is surprised that they loom so large in human psychology, since relative position was always by far the best predictor of reproductive success. People who didn't care how well they were doing in relative terms would have been ill-equipped for the competitive environments in which we evolved. Few parents, on reflection, would want their children to be stripped of positional concerns completely.

To award prizes is to attempt to control the course of another man's work. It is a bid to have him do what you will approve. It affects not only the one who wins the award, but all those who in any measure strive for it.

We must realize that artists are not in competition with each other. Help the young artists—find for them means to make their financial ways easier, that they may develop and fruit their fullest—but let us not ask them to please us in doing it.

Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.

Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests.

Throughout American economic life, regulatory barriers to entry and competition limit innovation by providing excessive monopoly privileges through copyright and patent laws, restrict occupational choice by protecting incumbent service providers through occupational licensing restrictions, and create artificial scarcity through land-use regulation. They contribute to increased inequality while reducing productivity growth.

Sell cheap and that's what people will think of you. Loss leaders lose. Customers look for price and value and service and quality and convenience. And you'd better give it to them or someone else will.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

his faster, more powerful battle cruisers would gobble up armored cruisers "like an armadillo let loose on an ant-hill.

The better idea doesn't have to win just because it is a better idea.