Quotes About Competition

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

It's not whether you win or lose — but whether I win or lose.

I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

It is therefore no wonder that modern thought, to the extent that it reduces man from a spiritual to a purely biological entity, elevates the state of inexorable competition, conflict, and self-serving aggression from a tragic lapse of our ordained destiny into the primary principle of the natural order.

SPENCER: Hide and seek was my favorite game with Melissa. You want to know why? I always won.

Girls fight much dirtier than boys

With perfection comes pressure. Students here are some of the best in the country, and sometimes, they have to let off a little steam. What five girls don't know, though, is that steam can scald just as badly as an open flame.

That other girl who was going to play Kate? God rest her soul, but she was god-awful.

the instant she made a point of telling me I was just as good as them, I saw that the whole question was open to debate and she was cheering me on because I was on the losing team

Edwards said the greatest moment of his career was winning the national championship. The lowest moment (of my career) happens every time we lose to Utah.

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport.

I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.

You're not the one having a hard time in the battlefield. The enemy's also having a hard time—the only question is who breaks down first.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and more creative for yours!

It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.

There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.

A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

I try to exercise in nature, and I try to play golf once a month. The last time I played golf with my wife, however, she got better scores than me, which became an additional source of stress.

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.