Quotes about Competition

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

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

It is no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench.

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

I matched my grey eyes against his brown ones for guile, my young golf-and-tennis heart-beats against his, which must be slowing a little after years of over-work. And I planned and I contrived and I plotted - any woman can tell you - but it never came to anything, as you will see. I still like to think that if he'd been a poor boy and nearer my age I could manage it, but of course the real truth was that I had nothing to offer that he didn't have.