Unhealthy Competition Quotes

Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.

Too many cry babies in this game.

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.

At times, I feel sorry for kids who have succumbed in some kind of way to being a child actor.

People who go to Oxford and Cambridge are often unproductive. What am I saying? This is nonsense. No, sometimes they get so competitive that, unless they're going to be Pulitzer prize-winning, they can't get off their backside.

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

I had to turn social media off. It was just crazy. Just to see the messages rolling through and people shouting, 'Till beat Tyron,' booking flights and booking hotels, that's becoming the norm right now.

When there is unhealthy competition everybody is a loser.

Some of my toughest races are people I've known, because it gets more personal than it should be.

Women compete, compare, undermine, and undercut one another - at least, that is the prevailing notion of how we interact.

It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen.

The most poisonous source in any kitchen is a chef's ego.

Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.

The problem with being married to an athlete who is, like, 19 feet tall and can just eat, like, 17 burgers at 11 o'clock at night is, you're like, 'I'll have just three of those burgers,' and you think you're being good because he had 19 and you had three!

There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.

Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.

The perils of success at a young age is being afraid to make a mistake.

I think I was the worst loser of all time. I couldn't stand it.

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.

I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy!

[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others