Quotes About Competition

The best horse will win in spite of pedigree, my boy. You remember Napoleon's mot—Je suis un ancêtre said Sir Hugo, who habitually undervalued birth, as men after dining well often agree that the good of life is distributed with wonderful equality.

Morality of Reward and Punishment plays an enormous role in the conservative worldview. The reward side rules out any government distribution of wealth or benefits that is not based on free market competition, and it makes the right to the disposition of private property absolute; the punishment side focuses the criminal justice system on retribution.

Competition therefore is moral; it is a condition for the development and sustenance of the right kind of person. Correspondingly, constraints on competition are immoral; they inhibit the development and sustenance of the right kind of person. Even

In the strict father model, the "free market" plays a significant, implicit role. The market is a competitive system where the disciplined are rewarded through profit, and the undisciplined (and hence immoral) are punished through poverty. The market is an instrument of morality.

Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.

In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!

Whenever you have to do a photo shoot with a woman, there is this weird competition. They need to prove something. They need to play games - maybe unconsciously - but women are so sensitive, and people call me more masculine sometimes.

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.

Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.

I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

Stats are for losers, and the one thing I'd like to point out, while at Wyoming, we won games, and I definitely think that's how quarterbacks are judged in the NFL.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

In this league, you can't take your foot off the gas pedal. You think you have something won, but teams are too good, too talented.

No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?

But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.

I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.

I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.

I cried when I won but never when I lost.