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Quotes About Competition

Exploit or get exploited.
~ B. J. Gupta
Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.
~ B.F. Skinner
Laramie had smiled at Dana. "You just can't stand one of your cousins making a clean getaway.
~ B.J. Daniels
Learn from the cock the following four things: getting up at the right time, fighting bitterly, making your brothers flee and usurping their share also!
~ B.K. Chaturvedi
All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Competitions are for horses, not artists.
~ Bela Bartok
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
~ Babe Ruth
If a man would cross a business, that he doubts some other would handsomely and effectually move, let him pretend to wish it well, and move it himself in such sort as may foil it.
~ bacon francis vii
I have always admired the games between Celtic and Rangers. That's one of the games that you always watch when it's happening.
~ Gianfranco Zola
Scottish football has always been about Celtic and Rangers, but we've rattled some cages and that's been good. The more competition they have, the better for Scotland as a whole.
~ Steve Clarke
There's so much of a rivalry there, the Devils and Rangers.
~ Martin Brodeur
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
~ Voltaire
Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.
~ Mark Cuban
I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.
~ Blanka Vlasic
Being world No 1 would be fantastic but you'd like to do it by finishing the year as No 1 without anything happening off the table to someone else's ranking.
~ Neil Robertson
You can focus on the ranking events but I do miss the Premier League because it's massive.
~ Adrian Lewis
As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.
~ John McEnroe
A lot of players are concerned about their ranking; I think you've got to just enjoy the sport and have fun.
~ Bernard Tomic
To jump from the indie ranks to play with the big dogs, there's a gate you have to pass through.
~ Richard Linklater
The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of 'Oppression Olympics.' Gold medal goes to the most offended.
~ Dave Rubin
I remember the reason why did I start my golf. We had a four day game I was playing for Trinidad against the Leeward Islands. They had in their ranks Winston Benjamin, Curtly Ambrose and Kenneth Benjamin. To add to it, the track was a green top. The four day game lasted two days, so I had two days to play golf.
~ Brian Lara
When I was coming up through the ranks, I won a lot - and probably won too much.
~ Kyle Busch
I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.
~ Chance The Rapper
I will rap circles around anybody.
~ E-40