Quotes About Competition

I bet it breaks your heart to have two of your friends pine for me the way they do," he said proudly. "Luna...and now Scarlet. They can't keep their hands off of me." "It's just because you are foreign to them. It's like if they went to the zoo and stared at the monkeys. You are the monkey.

In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.

So our chess game begins tonight, Duchess. At eleven o'clock. I will give you one hour to try to win, blindfolded or no." His teeth showed very white when he smiled. "And then I shall win." Jemma sniffed and turned up her nose. "Pride goeth before a fall, Duke." "You will fall before me," he said, his smile a blatant challenge. "Backwards.

Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.

I may not have been the first to wish to marry her, but I am the one who succeeded.

Why are girls so mean to each other?

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

I looked like a finalist in a competition to find Britain's least convincing flower child.

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

I just hate feeling like there's some timeline trying to tell me when I have to get to each new step. It feels like everyone's taking the elevator up to some secret penthouse party, and I'm not even allowed to take a peek. And if everyone goes up before I do, will they lock the door?

It is a great gain to society to have two idols: in the competition of idolatries the true worship gets a chance.

The Americans will probably to some extent modify their past system of total administrative cataclysms, but their very existence in the only competing form of free government should prepare us for and make us patient with the mild transitions of Parliamentary government.

If A kills B before B kills A, then A survives, and the human race is a race of A's.

Well, you live your life the way you want, I live mine the way I want. We see who makes it farther.

He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants ... which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.

American football was thick in the air; war on the gridiron they called it. Well, at least those who had never been in the real thing called it that.

Time is just common, it's like water for a fish. Everybody's in this water, nobody gets out of it, or if he does the same thing happens to him that happens to the fish, he dies. And you know what happens in this water, time? The big fish eat the little fish. That's all. The big fish eat the little fish and the ocean doesn't care.

Sport is the big giveaway. Wherever sport plays a big part in people's lives you can be sure they're bored witless and just waiting to break up the furniture.

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.