Quotes About Competition

If you want to succeed, get some enemies.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if aware of races should occur between the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

Today, no group in America feels comfortably dominant. Every group feels attacked, pitted against other groups not just for jobs and spoils but for the right to define the nation's identity. In these conditions, democracy devolves into zero-sum group competition - pure political tribalism.

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess. - Ch. 5

No puedes tener suerte cuando otra persona tiene habilidad.

You can't have luck when someone else has skills

Women [are] dwarfed not developed by competition. . . . What men did not want to do, they said was women's sphere. If a woman is natural[,] a man does not want her. This makes of woman a liar and a pretender. A woman is an actress who plays to an audience of men. They know what will be applauded and what will be hissed.

Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

Walking to the net, I'm certain that I've lost to the better man, the Everest of the next generation. I pity the young players who will have to contend with him. I feel for the man who is fated to play Agassi to his Sampras. Though I don't mention Pete by name, I have him uppermost in my mind when I tell reporters: It's real simple. Most people have weaknesses. Federer has none.

Trainers tended to perform with the same degree of effectiveness at various Saratoga meetings

I feel a rush of excitement whenever I get near the track.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of the fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality.

Robert said, This is great, huh? Sorry to butt in and everything, but I really need the extra points. For my grade. Ben nodded and tried to smile. Right, for his grade. He probably wanted to get an A++ in social studies instead of just an A+

Okay heres the deal a whole day of NO TALKING IN SCJHOOL.Not in class,not in the halls, not on the plaground nowhere.No talking at all. And its a contest- BOYS AGAINST GIRLS. Whichever side talks less, wins.

No knack of drawing heads can compete with sound knowledge.

Prizes aren't love. Because people who never met you can't love you. The slots for winners are already set, from here until Judgment Day.

race. She drives in close and uses her wheel spike to destroy Terencius's wheel.