Quotes About Competition

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end. I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like a tombstone.

Maybe it's my ego. Maybe I crave someone who will never be my rival.

Girls like that make me sick. I'm so jealous I can't speak.

to be aware that you must compete somehow, and yet that wealth and beauty are not in your realm.

Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow and torment me.

I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it. The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end. I felt like a racehorse in a world without race-tracks...

After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race.

Then I knew what the trouble was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?

I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true, and I couldn't hide the truth much longer. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race.

After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one son and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race.

Como é que eu poderia escrever sobre a vida se nunca tivera um caso amoroso ou um filho ou vira alguém morrer? Uma garota que eu conhecia havia acabado de ganhar um prêmio por um conto sobre suas aventuras entre os pigmeus na África. Como é que eu podia competir com esse tipo de coisa?

I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks

Wealth File #2 Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.

Alabastards like a contest.   Jack Russells only like a fight.

The world is a ball of dung and we are the worms that live in it and eat each other.' He turned his back on her, pausing only to add: 'The one who eats all the others wins – but he is still the last living worm in a lump of shit.

It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor,inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best.

He shook his head at himself as he walked out into the night. For guys, life was nothing but one big pissing contest. It was a pure damn wonder women didn't take over the world while men were busy trying to prove who had the biggest dick.

For guys, life was nothing but one big pissing contest. It was a pure damn wonder women didn't take over the world while men were busy trying to prove who had the biggest dick.

For guys, life was nothing but one big pissing contest. It was a pure damn wonder women didn't take over the world while men were busy trying to prove who had the biggest dick. He

Haven't you ever noticed that people who win say it's because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn't the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.

Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!

The god inside the man glanced at Aly. This is your chessboard, I believe, my dear. Aly beamed at him. So it is. And the game begins.

People are jackals, always willing to feed off someone else's kill.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.