Quotes About Competition

We're all in crashing plane, and everybody is fighting over who gets to sit in first class.

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing

The Shop City Mall had been closed for over a decade. Stores sat empty the entire time, waiting for a rebirth that was often promised, but never came. My parents had always blamed its demise on Amazon and Target, but I blamed the fact that Cinnabon is fucking gross and not a single living person has ever bought anything from a Brookstone.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.

When you win, you often lose

and if the other man falls, and not just any man but a man also trained to take it, they're done, they've won the purest win and that's what they're dreaming, these men in the back rooms of The Blue Horizon

To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.

É mais fácil vencer quando todos querem que você vença. Quem não faz inimigos chega ao topo com mais facilidade. Randy Komisar

I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in blackjack.

When it comes to expressions of violence, humans excel.

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

a team sunk at the end of the first segment stands a good shot of staying alive, or even coming in first, at the leg's end. And even teams that fall irretrievably far behind, have a chance of catching up to others at a bunching point.

The danger here is that this kind of praise puts relationships on thin ice. Might the big brother feel threatened when his little brother learns to tie his shoes? Will his accomplishment be diminished? And how will big sister feel when the "baby" starts learning to read? And will the brothers be likely to work together and help each other out with cleanups when one's achievement depends on the other's failure?

Yesterday's triumph of scoring two goals is forgotten.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

I have a great passion for boxing. I have family members who are boxers.

As a kid, baseball was always my passion.