Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Lamb, Charles

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

Gladiator's Salute

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Saying

13.

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

Riley, Pat

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, Italian

16.

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

Hogan, Ben

17.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

18.

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

Trevino, Lee

19.

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

20.

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

Witt, Katarina

21.

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

Durocher, Leo

22.

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

Walsh, Bill

23.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Jipcho, Ben

24.

The Law of Win Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.

Anderson, Greg

25.

Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Johnson, Patti

26.

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

27.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

28.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

Morris, William

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

Martin, Jerry

30.

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Horne, William Van

32.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

34.

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Wriston, Walter

37.

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

Geus, Arie de

38.

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

Landry, Tom

39.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Holtz, Lou

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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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I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

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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

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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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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Ovid

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

Leonard, George

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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

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It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

Agassi, Andre