Competition Is Good

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Boys of Summer Competition Edition
Qutoes

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Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
---Pyrrhus quoted in Plutarch's Parallel Lives

(Ed. Note: This is the origin of the term "Pyrric Victory")

Victory is no longer a truth. It is only a word to describe
who is left alive in the ruins.
--- Lyndon B. Johnson speech (1964)

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark
against your name,
He writes --- not that you won or lost --- but how
you played the Game.
--- Grantland Rice, "Alumnus Football"

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat,
When it's so lucrative to cheat.
---Arthur Hugh Clough,
"The Latest Decalogue"

Sure, winning isn't everything. It's the only thing.
--- Henry ("Red") Sanders
quoted in Sports Illustrated
(attributed to Vince Lombardi)