Quotes About Competition

When I step into the batters box and hear my team say my name and they all cheer for me i feel as if i need to hit the ball for them! Softball is life and nothing comes before it

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

The life of a dancer is not for everyone. You really have to have some thick skin. You really have to know what you're going into and how competitive the field is.

When I play videogames I'm trying to go deep every pitch. I'm definitely not going to try to do that in real life. In the (video)game I'm trying to leave the yard.

Mediocrity always attacks excellence.

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

Sports taught me how to compete on the court, and taught me how to compete in life. Sports and life run parallel with one another.

It's pointless to focus on others, as we can only control ourselves. I set a high bar and then it is my own private race. No one knows I'm winning or losing but me.

Mutual respect is a sacred value for all fencers, at every level.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

The emblems of status may shift, but human nature generally delights in being first.

No competition means no invention."20 In the wake of the Barings debacle, however, Villard had seen his German-funded North American Bank, source of much Edison GE electrical capital, collapse.

This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.

Chess is a very interesting game, and like so many interesting games, it is not in any way fun. It looks like four horses lost amongst a variety of pepper mills and salt shakers, and the objective is to remain awake longer than your opponent.

Any attempt to produce love, joy, peace, endurance, and so forth apart from the Spirit of God is reliance upon strategies that are in competition with God. Management

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field

High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.

Doubleday's First Law, which states that if you throw a fastball with insufficient speed, someone will smack it out of the park with a stick.

I have seen John Scalzi's pose-off picture. There are no words. There is only inarticulate whimpering.

Another problem with concentrating on money and power as a mission and purpose is that you're scorekeeping, and scorekeeping means you're thinking about results over which you have no real control.

Mind you, you have to have women around you in order to beat them—at the very least, they need to be within arm's reach.

Their dog, the dog that no one wanted, the pit bull that a 'no kill' shelter had wanted to kill, had outrun, out-jumped, out-hustled, and out-hearted all the herding dogs and retrievers and shepherds. In not just one event, but in a grueling series of games and contests that tested every aspect of a dog's abilities. Wallace was a world champion.

Dependence on the pastor turns the church inward instead of keeping its focus on reaching out. Everyone knows that the addition of more people threatens this great relationship with the pastor and creates competition between parishioners for the pastor's time.