Quotes About Competition

Boxing is just show business with blood.

I don't like to hurt people. I'm not that kind of person. But in the ring, it's a different story. You have to be ruthless. You have to go for the kill.

Wir wollten diese Finals unbedingt machen, wollten das Duell Detlef Schrempf gegen Michael Jordan ins Deutsche Fernsehen bringen. Das war unser Traum. Uns war doch völlig egal, ob das nach deutscher Zeit mitten in der Nacht war! Das interessierte uns nicht. Ganz schön egoistisch. Aber im Nachhinein zeigte sich, das ganze Schülerschaften von zwölf- bis achtzehnjährigen sich die Nächte um die Ohren schlugen, um diese Duelle zu sehen.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

The species of life notice their differences in time of scarcity.

I always knew it would come down to you and the big blue school boy. Planet's too big for the BOTH of you. When it all comes down, I want a piece of him. A small piece, will do? For OLD TIMES, sake, you know..it still hurts when its cold.

This was a standard Wall Street ritual. You obtained an offer from another bank, then used that offer to try to persuade your current employer to give you a raise. It's the only way to get ahead at an investment bank, and senior managers, though furious when you do this, will think you are a loser if you do not. It's not uncommon for a new salesman or trader to multiply his starting salary by as much as ten times in a few years, using such negotiating tactics.

while the firm sailed along cautiously, more aggressive banks—especially Salomon Brothers and Goldman, Sachs—began making more money. This was a serious problem for Morgan Stanley. In investment banking, cash conquers all. A bank's goal was to make money, not to preserve its chastity. If Morgan Stanley could outearn rivals by capitalizing on its stellar reputation, fine. But if less-reputed banks were generating more cash, Morgan Stanley was doing something wrong.

However, not even Soros could persuade Congress to pass any laws, and ultimately these proposals failed. Soros, Gonzales, Leach, and others were up against stiff competition. In the past two election cycles alone, legislators received an estimated $100 million in contributions from banks, investment firms, and insurance companies.

I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood.

I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Intellectuals, freelance writers, investigative journalists, and midlist novelists are the analog to the family farmers, who have always struggled but simply can't compete in this transformed economy.

These are the saddest of possible words: "Tinker to Evers to Chance." Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds, Tinker and Evers and Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double– Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble: "Tinker to Evers to Chance."

Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,Making a Giant hit into a double,Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble:"Tinker to Evers to Chance."

Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.

Emotions evolved, in short, for their capacity to induce adaptive reactions to danger, competition, mating opportunities, and so on. Emotions are action-prone. Our species shares many emotions with the other primates because we rely on approximately the same behavioral repertoire.

naturalist and anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin asked in 1902: "Who are the fittest: those who are continually at war with each other, or those who support one another?

Priority of access to food is an important function of dominance. Since most dominance interactions and virtually all agonistic episodes [conflicts] between adult females and males occur in feeding contexts, I find much less meaning in dominance occurring in the non-feeding context. Moreover, there is no difference."26

Mead stresses the universality of male competition, stating that "in every known human society, the male's need for achievement can be recognized." Men, to feel fulfilled and successful, need to excel at something—to be better at it than other men and better than women.13

Taken by themselves, emotions are pretty useless. Simply being fearful doesn't do an organism any good. But if a fearful state prompts an organism to flee, hide, or counterattack, it may well save its life. Emotions evolve, in short, for their capacity to induce adaptive reactions to danger, competition, mating opportunities, and so on. Emotions are action-prone.

Moreover, not unlike presidential candidates who hold babies up in the air as soon as the cameras are rolling, male chimps vying for power develop a sudden interest in infants, which they hold and tickle in order