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Quotes About Competition

If I looked at every other girl in the entertainment industry as competition, my life would be really lonely. I wouldn't have some of the coolest friends that I'm so glad I've gotten to know.
~ Taylor Swift
Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.
~ Terry Goodkind
I've been a gamer all my life.
~ Tiger Woods
Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.
~ Tim Hudson
In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.
~ W. H. Auden
We played in an era where you were taught to hate your opponent. But life changes. I raise my kids differently than my mom and dad raised their kids.
~ Wayne Gretzky
I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life.
~ John Carpenter
I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.
~ John McCain
I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.
~ Johnny Weir
I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.
~ Judith Jamison
I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself
~ Katie Couric
I've been second my whole life.
~ Kevin Durant
In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group.
~ Kristi Yamaguchi
Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.
~ Liev Schreiber
Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
~ Lily Tomlin
Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.
~ Louis Kronenberger
For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.
~ Marcel Proust
If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to their ankles.
~ Mardy Grothe
If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.
~ Margaret Mead
I'm 17 years old and there are many great things ahead. If I don't win the U.S. Open this year, it's not going to be a disaster in my life.
~ Maria Sharapova
I've grown up watching football my whole life.
~ Marisa Miller
There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.
~ Martha Albrand
There is nothing like competition. It teaches you early in life to win and lose, and, when you lose, to put your chin out instead of dropping it.
~ Maureen Connolly
From this perspective, the earth would no longer be simply a marketplace, its lands and resources divided among competing human groups.
~ John E. Mack