Quotes About Competition

Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!

I love sport as long as its kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.

The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.

Clearly, when you win everything, it's fun. That doesn't necessarily mean you love the game more.

Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

No matter how good you are at something, or how you rank your accomplishments, there is someone out there who makes you look incompetent.

In my kingdom," as the Red Queen tells Alice in Wonderland, "you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place." No one standing still can triumph, no matter how well constituted.

Cooperation is for safety, security and companionship. Competition is for personal growth and status.

Every game has rules... The first of these rules is that the game is important. If it wasn't important, you wouldn't be playing it.

Who cares if you are prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?

one bird, usually the largest, will eventually win—but even the victor may be hurt by the fight. That means a third bird, an undamaged, canny bystander, can move in, opportunistically, and defeat the now-crippled victor. That is not at all a good deal for the first two birds

What if there are hundreds of lobsters, all trying to make a living and raise a family, in the same crowded patch of sand and refuse? Other creatures have this problem, too. When songbirds come north in the spring, for example, they engage in ferocious territorial disputes. The songs they sing, so peaceful and beautiful to human ears, are siren calls and cries of domination. A brilliantly musical bird is a small warrior proclaiming his sovereignty.

If you take the low road than that wins and it gets a little stronger because everything that wins neurologically gets a little stronger.

Nuestros duramente conseguidos métodos adaptativos luchan por dominar, a menudo de forma violenta, en un individuo dado, entre individuos dentro de sociedades, y entre sociedades. Por tanto, se suscita el problema de la organización.

Power is a fundamental motivational force ("a," not "the"). People compete to rise to the top, and they care where they are in dominance hierarchies. But (and this is where you separate the metaphorical boys from the men, philosophically) the fact that power plays a role in human motivation does not mean that it plays the only role, or even the primary role.

Look for your inspiration to the victorious lobster,

A properly socialized three-year-old is polite and engaging. She's also no pushover. She evokes interest from other children and appreciation from adults. She exists in a world where other kids welcome her and compete for her attention, and where adults are happy to see her, instead of hiding behind false smiles. She will be introduced to the world by people who are pleased to do so.

cualquier jerarquía engendra ganadores y perdedores. Los ganadores, obviamente, tienen más probabilidades de justificar la jerarquía y los perdedores, de criticarla.

We compete for attention, personally, socially, and economically. No currency has a value that exceeds it. Children, adults, and societies wither on the vine in its absence. To have others attend to what you find important or interesting is to validate, first, the importance of what you are attending to, but second, and more crucially, to validate you as a respected center of conscious experience and contributor to the collective world.

We are not equal in ability or outcome, and never will be. A very small number of people produce very much of everything. The winners don't take all, but they take most, and the bottom is not a good place to be.

One person begins by telling a story about some interesting occurrence, recent or past, that involved something good, bad or surprising enough to make the listening worthwhile. The other person, now concerned with his or her potentially substandard status as less-interesting individual, immediately thinks of something better, worse, or more surprising to relate.

you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place." No one standing still can triumph, no matter how well constituted.