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Quotes About Competition

The 20th century was all about hierarchies: if you want to create something, if you want to start a country, create a product, whatever it is. Your goal is to create a highly efficient hierarchical model, scale it, because that's what the competition's doing.
~ Chris Fussell
The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
~ Harold Pinter
I believe the auto business is a highly comprehensive and complicated business. It's not that easy for people simply to enter and ruin the whole thing.
~ Li Shufu
I'm so highly competitive: I just want to win.
~ Busy Philipps
I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I gave up.
~ Jacques Dubochet
I'm chasing belts. I'm highly ranked, and after I beat Chisora, I should be No. 1 with at least four of the governing bodies.
~ Dillian Whyte
Newsrooms are still highly competitive, demanding environments. You have to be robust to hold your own amidst the alpha males and females.
~ Mary Nightingale
The pleasure of winning at this football club matches nothing I've ever experienced before. But if you're going to get those ultimate highs, you're going to get the ultimate lows.
~ Alan Pardew
When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.
~ Joel Edgerton
This sport gives you the highest highs and the lowest lows.
~ Donald Cerrone
I get quite stroppy if I lose - but I've developed skills with a mind coach to help deal with the highs and lows of tennis at this level.
~ Johanna Konta
I have played for many clubs, and for many managers, and been through many highs and lows. But one thing has never changed. And that's the feeling of scoring a goal.
~ Mario Gomez
This game has such extreme highs and lows.
~ Matt Serra
There's nothing to beat 'DID' on Indian television... the show that has given me so many highs in my career!
~ Shakti Mohan
I was so nervous competing against Lyneshia Sparx. She's so gorgeous, and she's hilarious. When you get to know her, she's the most lovely person.
~ Jinkx Monsoon
For me, it's always been about continually challenging myself and continually figuring out how to go down the hill faster.
~ Elana Meyers
In 2016, Hillary Clinton had so much more money than the Trump campaign, yet, we see who won that election.
~ Lara Trump
In Beverly Hills, the faster you climb, the harder you fall.
~ Brandi Glanville
I think it is possible to be friends even if you're competing. You know, there's so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out, and it doesn't work. It only hinders their work.
~ Jake Abel
Height is a funny thing in tennis because it definitely helps the serve, but it can hinder agility and movement. I think I have to spend a lot more time working on movement and flexibility than some of my shorter colleagues.
~ Kevin Anderson
If other members of the Hindi film fraternity are doing aggressive promotional campaigns, then I can do the same.
~ Bobby Deol
Success is a just reward for acting within this moral system. This makes success moral. Competition
~ George Lakoff
Rewards given to those who have not earned them through competition are thus immoral. They violate the entire system. They remove the incentive to become self-disciplined and they remove the need for obedience to authority. But
~ George Lakoff
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. (in The Sporting Spirit, Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)
~ George Orwell