Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lassiter, Luther

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Geus, Arie de

11.

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.

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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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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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Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.

Sheehan, Patty

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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.

Howe, Gordie

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

Campbell, Earl

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

Durocher, Leo

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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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Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Beecher, Willard

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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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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

29.

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

Landry, Tom

30.

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

Cauthen, Steve

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The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.

Laver, Rod

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

33.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game.

Rice, Grantland

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Horne, William Van

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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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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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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

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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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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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