Quotes About Competition

Frankly, said the Doctor, I am at a loss to understand my own emotions. I can think of no entertainment that fills me with greater detestation than a display of competitive athletics, none - except possibly folk dancing.

There will be a prize of half a crown for the longest essay, irrespective of any possible merit.

There was one thing unforgivable, like things in the schoolroom so bad that only Mommy could deal with, to set up a rival good to God's.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

At this point Jordan and I tried to go, but Tom and Gatsby insisted with competitive firmness that we remain - as though neither of them had anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions.

I matched my grey eyes against his brown ones for guile, my young golf-and-tennis heart-beats against his, which must be slowing a little after years of over-work. And I planned and I contrived and I plotted - any woman can tell you - but it never came to anything, as you will see. I still like to think that if he'd been a poor boy and nearer my age I could manage it, but of course the real truth was that I had nothing to offer that he didn't have.

Life was a damned muddle . . . a football game with every one off-side and the referee gotten rid of—every one claiming the referee would have been on his side. . .

He would have considered entering the leather business because the intensity of the competition would have kept him from unhappiness.

Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.

The real challenges that the country faces come from the winners, not the losers, of the new world.

warriors and statesmen who survived believed that they had a duty to create a world that did not lapse back into nihilistic competition.

I watch the stock-car races sometimes but you don't see anything but cars. I know about Fireball Roberts though and I watched an interview with Tiny Lunn. He is a huge dead-serious innocent-faced boy who must have made it big, he had just won the one in Jacksonville when I saw him but he never smiled once.

My family and friends, they know that I'm a really good competitor.

I played for England at cricket and football. Playing at Wembley in front of 60,000 people seemed better than playing at Cirencester in front of my family and friends.

Whether between family members or others, there should be a competition. Without that healthy competition, it is impossible to grow as actors.

I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'

I'm a big 'Countdown' fan.

As far as Alistair goes, he's got a great fan base, he's a great name fighter, and I look forward to competing against him.

When I came up with KRS-One and Rakim, everybody had to step their lyrical game up to build a fan base.

Since childhood, I have been a cricket fanatic.

I am a sports fanatic.

You have to assume as a bowler that the batsman is going to hit every ball that he will face. That's where as a bowler you have to fancy your chances. If he is going to hit you, you can dismiss him. That is the confidence I give to my bowlers.

For my 21st birthday party, I had a 'Strictly'-themed fancy dress.

To make it in boxing, you must captivate the fans in America, too.