Motivational Quotes

Competition

How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?

- Alexander, Barbara J.

Best Quotes about Competition

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Leonard, George

The game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Smith, Dean

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

Richards, Bob

Alexander, Barbara J.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Saying

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Gladiator's Salute

10.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid

11.

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

Kennedy, John F.

12.

Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.

Beecher, Marguerite

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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

Stenmark, Ingemar

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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Wriston, Walter

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.

Westphal, Paul

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

Proverb, Italian

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Thank God for competition.When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

Atkinson, Gil

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We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Walsh, Bill

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The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

Kersee, Jackie Joyner

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What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third-best horse and win.

Aragon, Vicky

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The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Geus, Arie de

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

Becker, Boris

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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Sampras, Pete

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How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Trevino, Lee

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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

O'Neal, Shaquille

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My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Riley, Pat

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World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition.Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.

Allison, Eric

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Hogan, Ben

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When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

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Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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

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When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

Sayers, Gayle

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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Lopez, Nancy

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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

Saroyan, William

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Hamill, Dorothy

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I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.

Penick, Harvey

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The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

Horne, William Van