Quotes About Competition

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

Mankind's yearning to engage in sports is older than recorded history, dating back to the time millions of years ago, when the first primitive man picked up a crude club and a round rock, tossed the rock into the air, and whomped the club into the sloping forehead of the first primitive umpire.

A golf course is nothing but a poolroom moved outdoors.

At the end of the day, it's a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It's a psersonal test every time I step into the batter's box: Can I do better than the last time? And that's why I love it.

It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.

In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat. And the ball.

The dominant characteristic of Silicon Valley was—and remains—the exceedingly fast pace and dynamic instability of the product development cycle within a rapidly changing technology environment.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

But in the genealogical plots of Dickens, which manage, against all the odds, and through extravagantly implausible coincidences, to work themselves out against the hostile background of the vast London crowds, we can identify the same narratological problem to which Joyce and Proust seek a queer structural solution: the competition for control of the narrative between the genealogical family and alternative forms of human connections.

Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.

How can you compete, being honor bred, with one who, were it proved he lies, were neither shamed in his own nor his neighbor's eyes?

Sometimes you are ahead, sometimes you are behind, the race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

Don't waste your time with jealousy. Some times your ahead, some times your behind. The race is long and in the end, it's only with yourself.

Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind, the race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

Don't waste your time on jealousy; Sometimes you're ahead, Sometimes You're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

It is a reality show... this show is never without drama.

I have been on only one reality show, which was a dance show, a long time ago.

I watch every reality show out there.

One of the major things in any dance-based reality show is how smartly you can impress the audience and keep your cool throughout the show.

If it's a cooking based reality show I would love to do it because I love cooking.

I don't like the idea of a reality show. It makes me like a student in school who is competing in a competition.

I will always support reality shows, no doubt about it.

I feel people are not real in reality shows and can use emotions as a pawn.

In reality shows, you have to perform once and prove yourself, and after that, it is a process to prove yourself every day.