Quotes About Competition

It was, all in all, a grand example of interspecies lack of cooperation and the further illustration that might makes right. I stayed in the rest area, in my car, for another half an hour, until everything had settled down, and saw who emerged as the victor. The bees kept the water fountain.

Wasn't that the whole point of Facebook, to demonstrate to your classmates that you were more than okay in the world?

I don't understand American football. If you're going to line a bunch of behemoths up in front of a bunch of other behemoths and ask them to hit each other as hard as they can, why tell them they can only hit one another a certain way? Too many rules, that's the problem.

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.

We're like two dogs in battle on their own; They fought all day but neither got the bone, There came a kite above them, nothing loth, And while they fought he took it from them both. From Chaucer's The Knight's Tale

We're like two dogs in battle on their own; They fought all day but neither got the bone, There came a kite above them, nothing loth, And while they fought he took it from them both.

Sports evolved through sexual selection, but they are not crude sexual displays.

Among primates, the intensity of sperm competition correlates much more strongly with testicle size than with penis size.

He theorized that these sex differences (dimorphisms) were due to females being choosier about their mates and males competing more intensely for mates. We now know that Darwin was correct. When mate choice occurs, females typically do the choosing.

Males, for example, may compete directly to copulate with fertile females or compete indirectly for food, territory, nest sites, or social status that may increase their access to fertile females. In either situation, females are not exactly "choosing" from among male competitors, but acquiescing to sex with the male that holds the food, territory, or nest site that they need in order to reproduce.

As in other species, male humans participate much more often in competitive sports than females. But every human culture invents different sports. We inherit the physical capacities and motivations to learn sports, not the specific genes for football, skiing, or boxing.

Males of all mammalian species risk their lives in ritualized sexual competition. We humans have invented thousands more ways of doing so, using our unique mental capacities to understand and follow the rules of sporting competition.

Each consciousness seeks the death of the other.

Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done

When a lion meets another with a louder roar the first lion thinks the last a bore.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

It is the tame elephants who enjoy capturing the wild ones.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

Sore loser? You bet your fuckin' ass! What on earth is wrong with being a sore loser? It shows you cared about whatever the contest was in the first place. Fuck losing graciously-that's for chumps. And losers, by the way.

Sports fans eat shit.

Life is a zero sum game.