Quotes About Competition

One cannot climb high without standing on others, and all she had wanted was to reach the top. What a waste it all seemed now. There is nothing at the summit, in the end, but a long drop.

Winning made people friendly. Winning too much made them nervous.

Vick learned long ago that might have is a game with no winners. Few games do have winners, in the end.

Men don't fence for their King, or for their families, or for the exercise either, before you try that one on me. They fence for the recognition, for the glory. They fence for their own advancement. They fence for themselves. I should know.

Give Bethod a kick from me, once you have him under your boot." "That I will, unless he gets me under his." "Never easy, kicking upwards.

Enemies are the price of success

Is there anything you do badly?" "Lose." She gave her sweetest smile. "I swear I'm the worst loser in the world.

who's-the-biggest-cunt contest, wouldn't you say?" Shivers slowly nodded. "A real arsehole's parade." "But then the arseholes tend to win, don't they?

Los enemigos son el precio del éxito

The old king and his old cunts glowered at the young heir and his young cunts, naught praiseworthy on either side but all jealous of what the others had even so. Matching groups, in many ways; Clover could almost see each warrior squaring up to his counterpart. The mean one, the handsome one, the one who hardly spoke, the one who spoke too much.

Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

El libro de Thomas Prehn Racing Tactics for Cyclists (VeloPress 2003) te ayudará a mejorar con las tácticas del ciclismo.

Perhaps the greatest impairment to purposeful practice is the presence of other athletes during a workout.

the Olympic podium-placers did these things: ?Paid meticulous attention to their goals ?Had a strong inner drive to stay ahead of the competition ?Concentrated on excellence ?Were not distracted by other people or athletes ?Shrugged off their own failures ?Rebounded from defeat easily ?Never self-flagellated ?Celebrated their wins ?Analyzed the reasons for their success ?Were very confident of their abilities

High-performance training means becoming the best triathlete possible. But that isn't revealed only in race results. High performance is more than simply where you finish in your races. It's also an attitude grounded in the belief that you can always get better.

Dick Trickle

Humanity is worse than flies. If even one dried nugget of offal survives the flames, we'll be swarming all over it. Fighting about who owns it and selling the most fragrant chunks to the wealthy and the gullible.

No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss-ssso much compressed wisdom. Check it out: I'm twenty years old, and I'm one of the top five SS-Scrabble players in the whole state. I guess that might say more about Iowa than it says about me.

Just because a horse can run, or train, does not mean that it can race. It might have the ability to run just as fast as everyone else - or faster - but it can't race, or won't race. There are plenty of horses working at Penn National or Finger Lakes, everyday, putting in workouts that are just as fast as the horses at Belmont. But they can't race; that's why they're at Finger Lakes.

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.