It 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.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

I’d love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what’s what.

It 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.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

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.

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.

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

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.

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

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

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

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

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

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

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

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Bring them on.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‚Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

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

Necessity… the mother of invention.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.