I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.
Ray BradburyIt obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.
Cristiano RonaldoI think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.
Steve JobsThe thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.
Mark ZuckerbergApple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
Steve JobsAn egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
Benjamin FranklinFolks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
Harper LeeI can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.
Dwayne JohnsonMine is better than ours.
Benjamin FranklinAs long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.
Sunil ChhetriLet us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
John RuskinThose parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.
Thomas SowellI was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.
Ayrton SennaHave you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOne is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.
Alice MunroA politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
Winston ChurchillCrowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.
Walt DisneyThe competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry FordAs soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
Babe RuthI used to go missing a lot… Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.
George BestMy justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.
Amy WinehouseThe scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
Nikola TeslaAre we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?
Barack ObamaIt is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Richard M. NixonThere are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThat’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.
Jurgen KloppIn England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.
George BestSerious sport is war minus the shooting.
George OrwellDo your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.
Abby Lee MillerIn war there is no prize for runner-up.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.
George LucasDuke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
Hunter S. ThompsonI was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.
LeBron JamesIt is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.
Alexander Graham BellRule number one is: Beat your team-mate.
Lando NorrisMy wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.
Bill GatesThese young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.
Kobe BryantWe cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry KissingerBattle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. PattonAnd while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew CarnegieIt’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.
Lando NorrisIt’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.
Bill GatesI will never retire unless I have to.
Dolly PartonIn war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.
Douglas MacArthurWhat’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.
Bill GatesNo work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan WattsI have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.
Walt DisneyCompetition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Herbert HooverAt United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.
Cristiano RonaldoAmerica and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack ObamaI’m all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.
Sunil ChhetriIt kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
Jackie RobinsonSectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John SteinbeckThe potential financial reward for building the ‚next Windows‘ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.
Bill GatesWe know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
Barack ObamaIt’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
Katharine HepburnHe who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Thomas CarlyleThe battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
Napoleon BonaparteNo sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov