Quotes About Competition

The best thing about having brothers and sisters is that they're brutally honest. My brother just got the 'Narnia' game, and first thing he does is kill me in it! Six times, over and over again!

I was a Division I college athlete, and I grew up with five brothers and two sisters. I've always been a competitor.

Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.

I used to win at school, and some teacher said to me, 'Why don't you take up running like your sisters?'

Sisters, to me, are fascinating because it is a unique connection of the coming together of connection and competition. The fact that you have these age differences is a built-in power struggle, and the fact that you're all trying to get attention and resources from the same parents creates competition.

I have two older sisters who were phenomenal sportsmen.

We have a family dynamic - more like brothers and sisters than friends. So there can be a bit of competition, but there's also love and respect. But there's a thing to not push each other's buttons. You know what the buttons are, so don't push them.

I used to watch Babita and Vinesh win medals. I was happy for my sisters but at the same time I felt bad for not being a part of the contingent.

For me, learning chess was natural; with my sisters around me, I wanted to play.

I had six brothers and four sisters and I competed with my brothers every day when I was a kid. If you lost in my family, they kidded the pants off you until you won again.

As a captain, you sit on the sidelines and it's evident the best place to bat is up front.

It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.

If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.

I was one of the first rappers to have his own forum. Then 50 Cent made 'Thisis50.com,' and everyone made sites just like it.

Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough chips that we could get them mislabeled. So we bankrupted at least two companies which copied our boards, and bought all the parts but they were the wrong parts, so they're sitting on all this inventory they can't sell because the games don't work.

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.

A pressure situation is not a happy feeling.

I don't go into a game thinking I'm going to run more than I'm going to pass. So it just depends on what the defense is going to bring in the situation of the game and what happens that play.

You can practice against each other, but there's something about a game situation.

My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.

There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.

On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.

The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.