Quotes About Competition

Austin believes that winning or losing in binary is meaningless when there's a high score to beat.

I love that there's such a rivalry. It's like, leaf water versus bean water, ya know?

It was like Latham: sometimes the point wasn't being the best, because it didn't mean you had the best life, or the best friends, or the best time.

Christianity and communism—which is to say, the most radical form of progressivism—are best understood as competing religions. Despite the self-delusions of theologically progressive Christians, so too are Christianity and the easygoing nihilism that characterizes progressivism in our post-Christian era.

An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Competitors must be monitored, but never mimicked

Trying to be the best at anything carries its own special risks, in or out of the Twilight Zone.

I was the ref. I was the ref they didn't know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win

The Athenians had failed in the fifth century BCE; now it was to be the turn of the Spartans.

Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here.

Neoliberalism is a panoply of cultural and political-economic practices that sets marketized competition at the center of social life – even as the sole ruler of social life. It aims to create a society that does not merely include markets but is based on the market and where there are, right down to the dirt under the fingernails of flesh-and-blood individuals, only agonizing private enterprises

There are wars between different kinds or genres of books, he said. And, as in real wars, the best don't always win; but for us, in the end, there are no losers, although they all fade away.

my favorite urban flower, the baseball box score

Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. Sitting in the stands, we sense this, if only dimly. The players below us—Mays, DiMaggio, Ruth, Snodgrass—swim and blur in memory, the ball floats over to Terry Turner, and the end of this game may never come.

There is no 'easy button' when it comes to beating the competition. Success is simply about working hard and delivering results and staying uncomfortable.

I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.

Marx's dialectical materialism does not permit any evasions: it is a question of settling a historic conflict. Man wrests his freedom from the chaos of capitalism; in this jungle of appetites and dog-eat-dog competition in which freedom is but a dream and a juggling of phrases, he can only win his freedom through class struggle.

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

For men who prided themselves on being disciples of reason, their drive to live on the edge seemd inexplicable, unless they believed that becoming the richest would certify them as also being the smartest.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

In America, if you succeed, you get sued. If nobody is suing you in America, you haven't made it there.

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