Politics is a blood sport.
Once you get to the tournament, it's like, win or go home.
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact.
It's not that things won't change - they can't help but change. Things are becoming more and more competitive.
At the end of the day, it's an unforgiving sport.
Hollywood can be a very stinging town. They say it's a forgiving business. It's not that forgiving.
To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.
There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind.
I have not survived 50 years in showbusiness by being Mr. Nice. If you are weak, this business eats you up.
When you get down to the meat and potatoes of genuine capitalism, it is cutthroat, vicious competition, and the consumer always benefits in the end.
At Court, every one for himselfe. [At court, everyone for himself.]
When the money gets bigger and the stakes get higher, the sea gets wider, and the sharks in the water grow sharper teeth.
I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.
You form pretty strong opinions about the guys you compete against. You're all very competitive; you're all very selfish. So it's easy to drum up some strong opinions in a second's notice, like, 'Argh! This guy!'
There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
It could potentially be a very competitive race.
I thrive in competitive environments. I've never been in a monopoly.
I am way too competitive! I get so crazy that I don't even care.
Sales bring out the worst in people.
There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.
From a young age, I was viciously competitive.
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.
The one thing about professional sport is it's all about results, and at the end of the day, if someone is employing you and you're not scoring runs or you're not taking wickets, they ain't going to carry on doing it, and there's no any other way of saying that; that's unfortunately the ruthless business of professional sport.
