In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

It’s hard for a player to plan for the future, especially in a game like football.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we’re so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We have to think quite carefully about using oil and its derivatives, because it’s not going to be around forever.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

If you win two games, one game or three games, you can still say it’s luck. But when you win a championship over 18 games, it’s not luck.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Have 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?

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

No 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.

I used to go missing a lot… Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

Those 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.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Sectional 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.

As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 – with the goal of making flying good again.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

As 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.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.