> If you have to break the rules to succeed against competition that is playing by the rules I read this three times before I understood what you were saying.

> If you have to break the rules to succeed against competition that is playing by the rules I read this three times before I understood what you were saying. At first I read it as "If you have to break the rules to succeed against competition, that is playing by the rules" as if to justify breaking the rules. English is a lovingly ambiguous language sometimes.