Quotes about Competition
You're in trouble,' she says, yawning. 'Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.
- Toni Morrison
I am alarmed by the violence that women do to one another: professional violence, competitive violence, emotional violence. I am alarmed by the willingness of women to enslave other women. I am alarmed by a growing absence of decency on the killing floor of professional women's worlds.
- Toni Morrison
The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That's motivation enough for me to go out there and play well.
- Kobe Bryant
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
- Aristotle
The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.
- Anonymous
When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ... By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it a full two inches closer to second base. He figured that this improved his chances for a steal, or for reaching second base safely on a hit.
- Norman Vincent Peale
My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.
- Yulia Tymoshenko
I'm just like the rest of the guys. I'm a little different in a lot of ways, but I'm still a player with a number on his back and if I'm unable to produce, they'll find somebody else to fill my spot.
- Donovan McNabb
It's an unbelievable achievement to win the FA Cup. I've been lucky to win it before, and I'd love to win it again.
- James Milner
As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
- Will Rogers