Quotes About Competition

Dance is a tyranny of the old over the young, the ugly over the beautiful, those who no longer can over those who can.

Although yoga is supposedly noncompetitive, I can't help that my Alpha nature requires that I go for the hardest variation of every pose, always pushing my limits as far as possible.

Everyone stays in a silent war for its interests and goals, some with fun and some with the gun, in various contexts.

Naturally, it is very arduous to terminate your monopolistic interests, realizing others' competitive interests; however, it builds the bridge of equality and peace.

Rivals do not carry identity cards.

The biggest enemy of a woman, is only a woman, no one else.

Surpass the best to be the best

don't care who wins. It is of no consequence to me who gets the cup and who doesn't. What I enjoy is seeing these great players equally challenged, because it brings out the best in each of them.

Our culture has an idea of competition in the pursuit of excellence that can make anyone not striving for the top feel like a worthless, non-productive bystander. This applies not only to one's career but even to one's leisure.

Praise yourself for taking risks and learning something new rather than for your successes; it will help you cope with failure. Try not to constantly compare yourself to others; it invites excessive competition. Allow time to think. Keep your expectations realistic. Be your own advocate. Support your right to be yourself.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

He who thinks to win without doing their very best will find himself a loser in the race.

How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most is the one who wins.

Would she always do the things I was supposed to do, before and better than me? She eluded me when I followed her and meanwhile stayed close on my heels in order to pass me by?

La plebe éramos nosotros. La plebe era ese disputarse la comida y el vino, ese pelearse para que te sirvieran el primero y mejor, ese suelo mugriento por el que los camareros iban y venían, esos brindis cada vez más vulgares...

school. At first I had great expectations, and even if I didn't say so clearly to myself I was glad to be there with Gigliola Spagnuolo rather than with Lila. In some very secret part of myself I looked forward to a school where she would never enter, where, in her absence, I would be the best student, and which I would sometimes tell her about, boasting. But immediately I began to falter, many of the others proved to be better than me. I ended up with Gigliola in a kind

and compare it with mine and feel—I hoped—in the lead. Luckily I sensed that she would never do it and that I would only have stupidly exposed myself. I remained silent, as she did.

Ya entonces había algo que me impedía abandonarla. No la conocía bien, nunca nos habíamos dirigido la palabra y aun así estábamos enzarzadas en una competición continua, en clase y fuera. Pero sentía confusamente que si hubiese salido corriendo junto a las demás, le habría dejado a ella algo mío que luego no me devolvería nunca.

time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most is the one who wins.

You're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

Not for you," Lila replies ardently, "you're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

I told him my theory. Most people, the minute they met you, were sizing you up for some competition for resources.