Baltasar Gracian Quotes

I do think you can't be as good as the person next to you to play: you have to be better.

I do love one-upmanship sometimes, like when you see kids breakdancing and who can do the best tricks. It's common, it's in our nature as animals, like the birds of paradise who've got the best feathers and that sort of stuff. But it's fun when it's impulsive and it's about fun.

We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us.

I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.

I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.

We've seen many heroes from Jamaica, you know, and to be put in that class or to be looked upon on that level is overwhelming. It's pretty big shoes to fill, you know. I'm a size eight, but I'll try my best.

Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

Any other business, you want your competitors to go out of business. In sports, you just don't want them to have as good a record as you do.

You're not gonna do what we do better than we do it. Even if you're doing what we do, you're not gonna do it better. I'm absolutely convinced of that.

You've got to work hard, got to outwork the other guy and got to outwork the other team. Sometimes outsmart them every now and then, but it all starts with the work.

My goal is to actually top him and be bigger and busier than John Cena.

I'm better than Jon Jones. I'm better than Sean Combs. I am even better than John Holmes.

I accomplished a lot, but my son has taken it to another level.

I knew better, even as a child, than to even attempt to compete with Donald.

And obviously I will try to beat Juan Pablo. We are not friends. But we respect each other. May the best man win - I hope it's me.

Durant has developed a LeBron Complex, sounding like he wants to be his best buddy LeBron as well as beat him.

When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

Somebody asked me about this the other day. A young Shaq and a young Penny, the young Shaq's going to take over. A medium Shaq and a young Kobe, the medium Shaq is going to take over. Now you've got an older Shaq and a young Dwyane; you step aside, you let him do his thing and you just do what's asked of you.

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.