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Quotes About Competition

In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth
~ Edmar Mednis
The city that has speed has success.
~ Le Corbusier
The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.
~ Garry Kasparov
Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
~ Ian Thorpe
There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it.
~ Steffi Graf
Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.
~ Pete Sampras
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
~ Kevin Spacey
it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi
The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.
~ Tom Peters
I am very competitive, so when I fail I use what I learned from that mishap to fuel success.
~ Tara Lipinski
if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!
~ Tiger Woods
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
~ Alan Hansen
Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.
~ Vanna Bonta
Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.
~ Joe Torre
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?
~ Mark Cuban
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.
~ Frederick Lenz
Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
~ Denzel Washington
Success--something your friends will never forgive you.
~ Julian Tuwim
Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.
~ Richard Dawkins
I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success
~ Gavin DeGraw
Chennai Super Kings will win the IPL. MS Dhoni's Clever Captaincy is the reason behind Chennai Super Kings' success in # IPL !
~ Kevin Pietersen
Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.
~ Malcolm X
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
~ Pierre de Coubertin