Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George OrwellDomination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.
David ByrneHaitian 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.
Noam ChomskyIf you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
Bill ShanklyBring them on.
George W. BushI don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
Lady GagaI’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
Matthew McConaugheyBattle 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. PattonTo make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘
Muhammad AliAmerica 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 ObamaFacebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.
Mark ZuckerbergWhen 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.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIn 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.
Bill GatesIt’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 HepburnI don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
Richard M. NixonWe’re very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That’s the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.
Mark ZuckerbergDerbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.
Jurgen KloppWithout sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.
Sunil ChhetriI don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.
Robert KiyosakiGod is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
VoltaireRunning 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.
Nelson MandelaOnce people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.
Robert GreeneIn England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.
George BestWhen we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.
Mark ZuckerbergSome 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.
Haruki MurakamiI’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.
Taylor SwiftThere have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.
Tom BradyWe’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.
Richard BransonI 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 SennaEvery driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.
Lando NorrisSectional 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 SteinbeckNo matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.
Dolly PartonMen rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo MachiavelliMy cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
Kurt VonnegutWe are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. KennedyDon’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
Colin PowellAutomotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.
Elon MuskI 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 JobsI 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.
Jackie RobinsonIf 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.
Bill GatesFolks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
Harper LeeThere 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.
Hunter S. ThompsonI won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.
LeBron JamesThe first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Warren BuffettPeople just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.
Kobe BryantThe true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
Tom BradyAnd 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 CarnegieWhenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.
George LucasLife is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand RussellSome people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.
Conor McGregorDuke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
Hunter S. ThompsonEducation levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.
Joyce MeyerAll 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.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiIt 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 BellI was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.
LeBron JamesMy goal is to be number one in MMA.
Conor McGregorI’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.
Lando NorrisLook at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.
Colin PowellI’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.
The WeekndI guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.
Lando Norris