Quotes About Competition

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I could barely believe myself. IOI had actually tried to kill me. To prevent me from winning a videogame contest. It was insane.

I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games.

You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems in order to achieve the goal.

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

If someone is not receiving what they are asking for, it is not because there is a shortage of resources; it can only be that the person holding the desire is out of alignment with their own request. There is no shortage. There is no lack. There is no competition for resources. There is only the allowing or the disallowing of that which you are asking for.

I soon set Castor's mind at ease about how I'd protect my borrowed identity. To stave off any challenges I couldn't handle, the first thing I did was issue a challenge of my own against any man who wanted to try his luck besting me in a footrace. I beat five men, including Kalais, a so-called son of Boreas, the North Wind. No one else challenged me for the rest of the morning. What man wanted to risk losing to a woman in front of all his friends?

We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.

And I remembered Willi's prophetic portrait of me, warning me against entering the American competition to be a pastor who "gets things done" and who is "going somewhere.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Drive for show, putt for dough.

Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes. Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards.

These men won eight victories over the Syracusans when the favor of the gods was equal for both sides.

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

A power struggle is always better than absolute power.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.

Not only was Feenah—whoever she was—Sylvan's ex, she was also his childhood sweetheart! How could she compete with that? You're not supposed to be competing, she reminded herself sternly. He's foresworn himself of you, remember? But the thought didn't make her feel one bit better. In fact, she felt worse. "Uh-huh.

I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.