Saying that though, I do think that Jack has problems with comparing himself to people, stemming back from his father telling him that he could never be the hero. We've seen this egotistical comparison in season three now when he was flat out bullying Sarah into giving him the name of the man she was dating instead of him. And with Sawyer his main rival for Kate (or he was at the time) I think that he does compare himself to Sawyer (esspecially since, on the surface, Sawyer has the freedom Jack aches for.)
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The person Jack has ego trips with is Locke. Locke is so much more of a competition to Jack and I'm sure Jack feels threatened by him and this is why he always needs to be one up on him. 
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This is interesting actually; I've rarely looked at it this way (usually seeing it that Locke is the one threatened by Jack.) I think that Sawyer and Locke represent different areas of threat and that Jack also one-up's Locke because he reminds him of Christian.