Quotes About Competition

My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

Well, I've been a fan of videogames all my life.

'American Idol' has taken over my whole life.

The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

I just hate to lose. When I am on the court, it is like my life depends on it.

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

Chess is most certainly not my life.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

I don't gamble at all, all my life. I am only interested in sports.

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

You're never allowed to step on people to get ahead, but you can step over them if they're in your way.

I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

Chess is life and every game is like a new life.

Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.

Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose." "I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.

Sicilee and Maya are both convinced that once they catch Cody Lightfoot's attention they are as good as on their first date with him, if not actually engaged.

and from the enactment in 1890 of the Sherman Act, the first of the great federal antitrust statutes. And

Ben Franklin said: "Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy wealthy and wise" Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father: "Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know. I used to be a person who liked pretty things. Like Mummy does, like all the Sinclairs do. But that's not me anymore.

The fact that I couldn't understand his life experience very well, combined with how he was a year ahead of me and really into all his academics, the literary magazine, et cetera—that meant that all the time, he got to be the big man and I was looking up at him with wide eyes. And that was what he liked about me. And why he despised me.