Quotes About Competition

It's a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

You might be [outshining me in many ways]. But if we get on a treadmill, there are two things: you're getting off first or I'm going to die. It's that simple, right?

Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.

The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.

Life's a game-and I happen to know how to play.

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

The life of a working model in L.A. kind of sucks.

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"

Anytime I can add a smile to somebody's life that's all well and good, but I play the game to play the game.

I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

For someone who's made it clear that her life is superior to every other student's at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.

If you have a pack establishing dominance in an area that involves such physical exertion, you're sucking the life out of the opposition.

Life is a kind of chess.

I was a football player and competitor in life.

I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.

I got to see the best players in the world every year the week after the U.S. Nationals, which is now known as the US Open, in Los Angeles. That made a huge difference in my life.

Professional golfer... what a life.

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.