Quotes About Competition

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know.

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.

For the old people in my family (...) 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.

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.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

Athletes, he believed, were simple, straightforward people, cruel and brutal if you like, but never petty. They knocked you down and hurt you, and then went on their way rejoicing.

Bunny, you've had your wind bagged at footer, I daresay; you know what that's like?

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He no play-da-game. He no make-a-da rules!

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games.

TIP: When holding two long suits, one of which contains a sequence, you should lead the suit with the sequence.

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

The need for such cathartic relief derives from the fact that even the best of organizations generate "toxins"—frustrations with the boss, tensions over missed targets, destructive competition with peers, scarce resources, exhaustion from overwork, and so on (Frost, 2003; Goldman, 2008).

building relationships between humans is an intricate adaptive process because it requires us to deal simultaneously with our biologically encoded impulses to both compete and cooperate in a cultural context that tends to favor one over the other. In our U.S. culture, it can be especially difficult to build enough trust to feel comfortable asking for help.

When our true intentions are something other than providing help, such as getting a job done or beating someone in a game, we are most prone to falling into the traps described throughout this book.

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

The wars fought by human beings are stimulated as a rule primarily by the same instincts as the voracity of a sea slug.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Ahí se los dejo al Gato, agazapado, en puntas de pie, con los ojos semicerrados. Diciéndome desde las páginas de un cuento inolvidable que en el fútbol, como en la vida, hay algo más importante que las victorias y las derrotas. Mucho más importante: con quién te toque compartir eso de ganar y eso de perder.