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Quotes About Competition

The sad fact of life: Winners love the game. Losers don't.
~ The Wombat
Every sport pretends to be literature. . .
~ Alistair Cooke
Our team was surprisingly consistent this year. We closed with a seven-seven record. We lost seven at home and seven on the road.
~ Steve Wheeler
Counting both times I cheated this week I won at solitaire twice.
~ Mary Virginia Micka
As a woman I resent the fact that in golf if I have the highest score I'm the loser.
~ Wendy Morgan
He who has the fastest cart never has a bad lie.
~ Anonymous
It's not that I really cheat at golf. I play for my health and a low score makes me feel better.
~ Anonymous
Golf is not a matter of life or death. It is much more important than that.
~ Rod Powers
I'm not playing with my brother-in-law today. Would you play with a man who improves his lie and cheats on his score? Well neither would he!
~ Anonymous
Sportsmanship is definitely an important thing in all sports. In soccer, we all respect each other on such a high level, between Sweden and Brazil and Japan or whatever team it is.
~ Alex Morgan
I'm not a big sports fan.
~ Harlan Coben
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
~ I love team sports.
I'm a big sports fan.
~ David Chang
Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
~ Lennox Lewis
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
~ Charles Darwin
The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.
~ Jose Raul Capablanca
The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.
~ Ratan Tata
Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
~ Anatoly Karpov
Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.
~ W. H. Auden
I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.
~ Boris Becker
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
~ Joseph Conrad
Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.
~ Garry Kasparov
This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.
~ Jane Addams
In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness.
~ Roman Dmowski