Quotes About Competition

I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief-- even the dogs were howling.

I want to knit socks for the soldiers. It's not as easy as that, she said, looking at me strangely. It's difficult to turn a good heel. There are competitions over it.

I'm glad has promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief-even the dogs are howling.

But there's nothing to be done about it. All I can do is put in time waiting for the inevitable, observing as the ghosts of my past rattle around my vacuous present. They crash and bang and make themselves at home, mostly because there's no competition. I've stopped fighting them. They're crashing and banging around in there now. Make yourselves at home, boys. Stay awhile. Oh, sorry—I see you already have. Damn ghosts.

world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?

That would have been too obvious, Matt said. You just said I never choose scissors so you had to know I would choose scissors so I couldn't choose scissors because you'd know it. Hence, the rock. Hence the paper covering your rock. You ask her. Well played my friend, Matt said. Well played.

I bet you can't eat ten bananas! I bet you're right.

Les françaises—particularly parisiennes, she stresses—perceive those of the same sex as rivals, not as potential friends.

Before the verb "to electrocute" came to define death by electricity, Edison advocated that the verb be named for his nemesis, that a person who had been electrocuted would have been westinghoused instead. I bet Westinghouse came up with some possible definitions of what it meant to be edisoned himself.

Last guys don't finish nice.

His intellect would have been more effective if he had had an aggressive paranoid character, eager for power. He was jealous but not exceptionally competitive, not a true paranoiac.

I gain nothing by having a rock in my boxing glove if the other fellow has one too. - Sir Denis Nayland Smith

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But if your story is about the inner workings of competitive quilting, you'd better make it short and extra witty. People drift off when you stop talking about stuff that isn't, well, them. The

I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here... until Jean shows up.

When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.

Winning is like sex—the spirit inevitably craves the next occasion.

But when, in spite of weakness and disappointments, we set to work in earnest, and persevere steadily, we often find, that, though obliged continually to tack, we make more way than others who have the assistance of wind and tide; and, in truth, there can be no greater satisfaction than to keep pace with others or outstrip them in the race.

Ein deutscher Schriftsteller — ein deutscher Märtyrer! Ja, mein Guter, Sie werden es nicht anders finden. [...] Und wenn noch die bornierte Masse höhere Menschen verfolgte! Nein, ein Begabter und ein Talent verfolgt das andere [...] und jeder sucht den andern schlecht und verhaßt zu machen, da doch zu einem friedlichen Hinleben und Hinwirken die Welt groß und weit genug ist, und jeder schon an seinem eigenen Talent einen Feind hat, der ihm hinlänglich zu schaffen macht.

If you think I'm going to tell my wife she came in second place, you're out of your gourd. I'll convey the apology and not another bloody word.

Use other people's success as inspiration, not competition. Their win doesn't equal your loss.

There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave all they had to win, and Apollo Creed says to Rocky - "Your not getting a rematch" and Rocky says "I don't want one". I love that scene. That's when you know that you left no doubt - that your opponent, win or lose, never wants to compete against you ever again. That's fighting.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it