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Quotes About Competition

All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.
~ Jack Newfield
Everything about my life is about winning a national championship
~ Kyle Dake
Life in Beverly Hills is a game, and I make the rules.
~ Lisa Vanderpump
It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.
~ Lyman Abbott
The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.
~ Marat Safin
I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my life, I mean, I could remember I wanted to fight.
~ Michael Spinks
There's a competitive fire inside me. I can't get enough. I live to compete daily in my own life.
~ Mike Holloway
I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.
~ Paul Wesley
I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.
~ Queen Latifah
Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.
~ Barry O'Sullivan
I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.
~ Chelsea Clinton
Your life may be really boring in reality, but online you're a competitive superhero.
~ Paul Gallant
Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.
~ John Updike
On the whole, life is unfair in the way it works out. It is a game played without an umpire!
~ Ursula Bloom
The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles.
~ Roberto Duran
As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.
~ Sergio Perez
Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.
~ Sid Waddell
When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life.
~ Gabriela Sabatini
Sports is the toy department of life.
~ George Will
Envy is the central fact of American life.
~ Gore Vidal
It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!
~ John Cowper Powys
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
~ Lily Tomlin
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.
~ Richard Curtis
Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.
~ E. Lockhart, We Were Liars