Pat Summitt Quotes

I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct.

Politics is applied biology.

Surviving is not something you need to learn. You don't need to learn survival skills; you have them already. That's why we're here, all of us, because it's a game of survival anyway.

The trouble is, the same thing that enabled us to survive evolution is also going to kill us, because in the final analysis, if survival is the primary motivation of every human being, then we will finally be in a situation where might will make right and only one person will survive.

Evolution leads the way through desire.

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.

People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

Everybody's trying to be the biggest, because if you're not the biggest, you don't survive.

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

A hungry dog hunts best.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

To me, everything's competition.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

The nature of human beings is that we're competitive, and the chances are there's someone out there who's going to work harder than you and want it more than you.

With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It's no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive.

I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.

I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we're playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it's going to bother me. I just enjoy competition.

I am someone that is very competitive. When I'm on the field, I compete. When I'm practicing, when I'm in meetings. I'm a competitor in everything.

I'm not afraid to say I'm competitive.

I'm a competitive person.