8 quotes
“Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?”
"You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does."
— Philip Pullman
"Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones."
— Pericles
"There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more."
— Joseph Heller
"I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it."
— Walt Disney
"If there’s no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?"
— Lois McMaster Bujold
"If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats."
— Bertolt Brecht
"Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other."
— Charles Lamb