I didn’t lose and let everybody else beat me so much as I made the race last. Last place means I had the most time to enjoy the experience.


...every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment).

He said he came in second place, so I assumed there were only two competitors. But you never know with love, there may have been a third party involved.

Winners of some competition are not heroes, heroes are not found in the competition, heroes win much more severe battles than competition to become heroes.

Enjoy every second—even if at first you only win second. Keep competing until all your competition has died of old age and you are the winner by default.

...er det meget sterke krefter som søker å erstatte friluftsliv med mekanisert miljøødeleggende og konkurranseformet opphold i natur.

Karate, I get a real kick out of it. I would get a kick out of coffee, but I’ve got better ways of stirring, like renting Michael Phelps’ 400 IM time.

Untuk apa mengadu kesaktian jika tujuannya hanya untuk menunjukkan yang lebih unggul? Bukankah Sang Maha Pencipta tetap yang paling unggul di atas segala-galanya?

...it is well known that to praise someone whose rivalry you do not dread is often a very good way of putting a spoke in the wheel of someone whose rivalry you do.

Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014

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

In golf, you don’t beat the other golfers—you beat your self-doubt. That’s why I don’t play, because I can’t beat anyone—not even myself.

Take someone who doesn't keep score,who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,who has not the slightest interest evenin his own personality: he's free.

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

People say I can handle pressure, but there is one sporting competition where if I were in the finals, I’d surely choke, and that’s the hotdog eating competition.