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{{quote|''"...I'm here to win."''
|'''At least one contestant per season on every [[Reality Show]] Competition ever.'''<ref>They rarely win.</ref>}}
{{quote|''"We're not here to make friends. We're here to become celebrities, remember?"''
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** Cycle six's Jade is particularly infamous for it, thanks to her furious exclamation of "This is not America's Next Top Best Friend!"
* Sometimes, a player who gets rather far averts this - there are some people who come onto reality shows just for the experience and winning is an added bonus if they manage to do so, At the same time though, there are people who know if they take this attitude to the game, there's quite a good chance they'll wind up in second or third leaving behind a trail of angry jurors.
* Daryl from ''[[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Tough Enough'' was quite vocal about not being there to make friends. Apparently, he didn't make friends with the trainers, either; he was the first contestant to be cut from the show.
** But not before being called out by Al Snow for complaining under his breath when the contestants are asked to do something. When Al tells him that he doesn't take that crap from his ten-year-old son and he sure as hell won't take it from him, you knew his days were numbered.
* ''[[Hell's Kitchen|Hells Kitchen]]'' deserves a special mention here. Usually, you will get a chef or two with this attitude, and in fact [[Jerkass|Elise]] of Season Nine said this trope title word for word. However, this is a case of [[Wrong Genre Savvy]], as you need to work well with the people on your team to succeed, and host Gordon Ramsay is a huge advocate of [[The Power of Friendship]]. In Season Nine, the blue team were all friendly and usually made good services, while the red team was fractured by in-fighting, did more arguing than cooking, and often lost. In other reality shows, saying this phrase makes you a [[Jerkass]]; in ''HK'', it's a [[Violation of Common Sense]].
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