Quotes about Competitor

Likewise, a competitor does not receive the crown unless he competes according to the rules.

Look at the opportunities here for a man of knowledge, brains, pluck, and enterprise to sail in and grow up with the country. The grandest field that ever was; and all my own; not a competitor; not a man who wasn't a baby to me in acquirements and capacities; whereas, what would I amount to in the twentieth century? I should be foreman of a factory, that is about all; and could drag a seine downstreet any day and catch a hundred better men than myself.

Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.