Quotes About Competition

It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs.

No one is better at not beating America than England.

Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head.

The deader the ball, the better it suited her purpose, which was to whack the shit out of it until she was physically exhausted. She thought this was quite possibly the most satisfying thing she'd ever done.

If you substituted networks for socialism, you got the Internet. Its competing platforms were united in their ambition to define every term of your existence.

It's the fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

The New Jersey constitution, says the court in its decision, requires that all students be provided with "an opportunity to compete fairly for a place in our society.… Pole vaulters using bamboo poles even with the greatest effort cannot compete with pole vaulters using aluminum poles.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

No one fired a pistol to mark the start of the race to the bottom. The earth just tilted and everyone slid into the hole.

In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls.

In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn't, because there aren't enough skulls!

The Thanksgiving turkey is the flesh of competing instincts —of remembering and forgetting.

When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.

delinease en un papel, Y aparecen en la figura de esta página. Le dije que, aunque en Europa los sabios tenían la costumbre de robarse los inventos unos a otros, y de este modo lograban cuando menos la ventaja de que se discutiese cuál era el verdadero autor, tomaría yo tales precauciones, que él solo disfrutase el honor íntegro, sin que viniera a mermárselo ningún rival.

The lucky individual that finds a different seed, or nook, or niche, will fly up and out from beneath the Sisyphean rock of competition. It will tend to flourish and so will its descendants—that is, those that inherit the lucky character that had set it a little apart. Individuals that diverge from the madding crowd will tend to prosper, while the rest will be ground down.

Peter suspects that the caltrop is evolving in response to the finches. Where the struggle for existence is fierce, the caltrop that is likeliest to succeed is the plant that puts more energy into spines and less into seeds; but in the safer, more secluded spot, the fittest plants are the ones that put more energy into making seeds and less energy into protecting them. The finches may be driving the evolution of caltrop while caltrop is driving the evolution of the finches.

As Nat and Danny took the kick-off, the ref blew for full time.

Football is aesthetically ugly. Eleven players against eleven others running after a ball are not especially beautiful.

But in capitalist reality as distinguished from its textbook picture, it is not that kind of competition which counts but the competition from the new commodity, the new technology, the new source of supply, the new type of organization (the largest-scale unit of control for instance)—competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms but at their foundations and their very lives.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

At least I've had a man," Leah snapped. "And I've got a college degree and own a business, while you're serving coffee at your aunt's coffee shop. You want to continue keeping score of who's doing what, go right ahead, but I've got work to do.

There's no way to know how good a player you are except by measuring against others.