Cutthroat Environment Quotes

It is not enough that I succeed. Everyone else must fail.

Here in Washington ruining people is considered sport

You want to win in the NBA you want to build a culture and teams will always do that and try to win. It's cutthroat. All 30 teams want to be that way whether they are rebuilding, have young players, have a style of play. It doesn't matter, everybody wants to win.

Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to getting a role, you don't have any friends, you're incredibly competitive and any actor who tells you different is lying.

Washington [DC] is a zero sum place.

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.

There's no second-place winners in this league.

In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

Hollywood can be a very stinging town. They say it's a forgiving business. It's not that forgiving.

It's difficult for anyone to regard a place in the England starting line-up as their own. There's always someone looking to get ahead of you, and that's how it should be.

Washington's a mean city ... it's savage.

In Washington, if you don't win, you lose. If you don't survive, you die. If you don't prosper, you fail.

Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.

My whole freshman year at Duke, it was drilled into me that nothing was given to you, and you have to earn it, and this is a dog-eat-dog world, and blah blah blah, and blah blah blah. And you buy into it, 100 percent. You end up loving it. That's the way it should be, right?

I think it's normal to have competition once you get to the professional level.

There is no friendship out there. When you race, you have to fight. That's it.

I had horrible experiences in Hollywood.

Whenever a fellow coach is sacked it is not good for any of us - it hurts. You just have to accept it because it is part of the game.

No one's going to hold your hand in the boxing business. And the people who do end up ripping you off.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

The competition is pretty rough these days.

There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.

The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.

I see life and the world simply as an arena for competition. That's just what people do, and there are always going to be winners and losers.