Quotes About Competition

Ya estábamos compitiendo por una posición antes de tener piel, manos, pulmones o huesos. Así, hay pocas cosas más naturales que la cultura. Las jerarquías de dominación son más antiguas que los árboles.

The best player is therefore not the winner of any given game but, among many other things, he or she who is invited by the largest number of others to play the most extensive series of games.

dominance hierarchies have been an essentially permanent feature of the environment to which all complex life has adapted.

The winners don't take all, but they take most, and the bottom is not a good place to be.

Piaget suspected, for example, that games undertaken voluntarily will outcompete games imposed and played under threat of force, given that some of the energy that could be expended on the game itself, whatever its nature, has to be wasted on enforcement. There is evidence indicating the emergence of such voluntary game-like arrangements even among our nonhuman kin.6

you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place.

Agresija je u temelju ljudskoga poriva da bude izniman, nezaustavljiv, da se natje?e i pobijedi - da bude krjepostan, barem u jednom segmentu. Odlu?nost je njezino zadivljuju?e prosocijalno lice.

Girls aren't attracted to boys who are their friends, even though they might like them, whatever that means. They are attracted to boys who win status contests with other boys.

I've never liked the word team . I've always equated it with being picked last and getting nailed in the groin with a dodgeball.

One thing the American defense establishment has traditionally understood very well is that countries don't win wars just by being braver than the other side, or freer, or slightly preferred by God. The winners are usually the guys who get 5% fewer of their planes shot down, or use 5% less fuel, or get 5% more nutrition into their infantry at 95% of the cost.

countries don't win wars just by being braver than the other side, or freer, or slightly preferred by God. The winners are usually the guys who get 5% fewer of their planes shot down, or use 5% less fuel, or get 5% more nutrition into their infantry at 95% of the cost. That's not the stuff war movies are made of, but it's the stuff wars are made of. And there's math every step of the way. —

Te apuesto a que soy más infeliz que tú. ¿Doble o nada?

el fútbol es la recuperación semanal de la infancia».

The challenge is not to find a top player who has used steroids. The challenge is to find a top player who hasn't.

A naides tengás envidia: es muy triste el envidiar; cuando veás a otro ganar, a estorbarlo no te metas: cada lechón en su teta es el modo de mamar.

One must attempt to increase whatever weakness there may be in the opponent's position; or, if there is none, one or more must be created.

These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

Every piece of business strategy… must be seen in its role in the perennial gale of creative destruction.

The female of species is deadlier than the male.

Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

conspecific aggression,

To put it baldly, there are two ways to become wealthy: to create wealth or to take wealth away from others. The former adds to society. The latter typically subtracts from it, for in the process of taking it away, wealth gets destroyed. A monopolist who overcharges for his product takes money from those whom he is overcharging and at the same time destroys value. To get his monopoly price, he has to restrict production.