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Quotes About Competition

We just have to go out there and play and take one game at a time. We have to know everybody will play the best game they can.
~ Maurice Hall
We are living at a time where there are so many films available to watch through so many formats all the time. It's hard for any film to stand out in that din.
~ Megan Griffiths
I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.
~ Michael Chang
In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.
~ Mickey Mantle
The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee.
~ Mike Ingham
The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.
~ Mitchell Hurwitz
I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.
~ Muhammad Ali
It's a reality here. We're a team that at this time of the season, with teams trying to get to the playoffs, it's going to be difficult to win.
~ Nate McMillan
The Bowling Green game was a big-time environment. We wanna see that for all the games.
~ Nate Oats
Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.
~ Neil Diamond
It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
~ Mark Twain
The billiard table is better than the doctor.
~ Mark Twain
This nightmare occupied some ten pages of manuscript and wound up with a sermon so destructive of all hope to non-Presbyterians that it took the first prize. This composition was considered to be the very finest effort of the evening. The mayor of the village, in delivering the prize to the author of it, made a warm speech in which he said that it was by far the most eloquent thing he had ever listened to, and that Daniel Webster himself might well be proud of it.
~ Mark Twain
The best swordsman does not fear the second best. He fears the worst since there's no telling what that idiot is going to do.
~ Mark Twain
Smiley always came out a winner on that pup, till he bet on a dog once that didn't have no rear legs, because they'd been sawed off in a circular saw accident. When the fight had gone along far
~ Mark Twain
The spider looks for the merchant who doesn't advertise so he can spin a web across his door and lead a life of undisturbed peace.
~ Mark Twain
Look at the opportunities here for a man of knowledge, brains, pluck, and enterprise to sail in and grow up with the country. The grandest field that ever was; and all my own; not a competitor; not a man who wasn't a baby to me in acquirements and capacities; whereas, what would I amount to in the twentieth century? I should be foreman of a factory, that is about all; and could drag a seine downstreet any day and catch a hundred better men than myself.
~ Mark Twain
Un pauvre garçon qui n'avait rien d'autre à proposer alla jusqu'à dire, avec une fierté manifeste à ce souvenir : « Eh bien, moi, une fois, Tom Sawyer m'a battu ! »
~ Mark Twain
I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They're running at me.
~ Markus Zusak
A SMALL BUT NOTE WORTHY NOTE I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They're running at me. He
~ Markus Zusak
A SMALL BUT NOTE WORTHY NOTE I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They're running at me.
~ Markus Zusak
Nel corso degli anni ho visto tanti giovani che credono di correre gli uni contro gli altri. Non è così. È verso di me che corrono.
~ Markus Zusak
the threat of Jewish competition was taken away, but so were the Jewish customers
~ Markus Zusak
I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They're running at me.
~ Markus Zusak