Quotes About Competition

I have never played against anybody like that in my life and I was pleased to be taken off.

One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.

I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.

Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over.

Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die.

Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.

I was just racing day by day. With Niki [Lauda], every race was to be on the top. He programmed his life to be champion. I enjoyed life. That was the maximum for me.

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

Like it or not, life is a series of competitions.

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.

Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.

Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.

Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.