Quotes About Competition

International politics is not unlike the jungle: smaller and weaker animals require acute intelligence, sensitive antennae, and nimbleness of footing to assure their own self-preservation; the strong—such as elephants—need pay less attention to ambient conditions and can often do as they wish, and others will get out of the way.

There are unimportant pieces in any game.

There is nothing so momentary as a sporting achievement, and nothing so lasting as the memory of it.

circa 1985. Vida's great claim to fame was winning a televised wet T-shirt contest in Destin she'd beaten 150 other competitors-but two children and ten thousand cheeseburgers had deflated her prized assets and hidden her waist in a roll of hard fat.

Her people would kill one beauty to make another.

Religion is just a long competition to see who can design the silliest hat.

I was too young, then, to know that dead lovers are the toughest rivals.

Religion is just a long competition to see who can design the silliest hat. She's

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The hosts—our bodies—and the viruses—any bug that makes us sick—are locked in a competition with each other. When the parasite attacks, the host develops a defence. Then the virus changes to beat that defence, so the host gets a new defence. And that keeps on going. They call it a Red Queen Contest. It's from the story, you know, Alice in Wonderland.

That's what it means, to have a police force: you've accepted a group of people who can't afford to not win.

Sometimes we'd be sitting down watching TV and my dad would tell me and my brother to run upstairs and grab him something. He would time us. Every time. It was like the world record was on the line. My brother and I both wanted that world record, so we'd run upstairs as fast as we could to see who could get back to my dad first.

World records aren't broken in practice, and competitive environments and adversity are the birthplace of champions.

Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

I knew I would be running with so many people watching all over the world because of him. People love Bolt. He has many fans out there because of his great achievements and breaking world records in Olympics. I've done the same and it's a great honour. I'm happy and I'm happy for him.

I know I hold the contest record for downing the most hot dogs, and the record for most Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Contest championships, but it was really cool to be a part of a Guinness World Records official attempt.

The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.

I was trying to break world records in cycling.

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

I'd rather be in a good position in the playoffs and holding up a World Series trophy than holding up an MVP trophy.

I want to win a World Series. I've come in second, both in college and in the big leagues. I'm tired of it.

Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.

I had to go out and give my team a chance. I didn't want to be remembered as the guy blowing the World Series.

We're all trying so hard to win each of these World Series events and the standard now is phenomenal but it's great that everyone's pushing each other.