competition

1.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

- Burrus, Daniel

2.

Good coaches teach respect for the opposition, love of competition, the value of trying your best, and how to win and lose graciously.

- Brooks Clark

3.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

- Durocher, Leo

4.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

- Bradley, Bill

5.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

You get out in front -- you stay out in front.

- Foyt, A. J.

7.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

- Ruskin, John

8.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

- Kennedy, John F.

9.

After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.

- Proverb, Italian

10.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

- Bartok, Bela

11.

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

- Cooley, Charles Horton

12.

Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

- Benoit Mandelbrot

13.

When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

- Martin, Jerry

14.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

- Sheen, Fulton John

15.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

- Ford, Henry

16.

I'm interested in the capitalistic way of life, and the reason I like it better than anything else I've seen so far is because competition produces results. Every socialistic type of government where the State theoretically owns everything, and everybody does their little part to help the State, inevitably produces bad art, it produces social inertia, it produces really unhappy people, and it is more repressive than any other kind of government.

- Frank Zappa

17.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

- Becker, Boris

18.

There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there.

- Gandhi, Indira

19.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

- Shoemaker, Willie

20.

The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

- Saying