Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Beecher, Willard

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

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

Campbell, Earl

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

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

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

Witt, Katarina

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Leonard, George

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

Lamb, Charles

10.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit.

Mansell, Nigel

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In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.

Ross, Ruth

14.

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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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

17.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Laver, Rod

20.

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

Gladiator's Salute

21.

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

Berra, Yogi

22.

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

Proverb, Indian

23.

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Oerter, Al

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

Geus, Arie de

25.

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

Hogan, Ben

26.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

27.

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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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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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

30.

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

Durocher, Leo

31.

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

Walsh, Bill

32.

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

Brock, Lou

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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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These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Orpen, Robert

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

Martin, Jerry

40.

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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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 step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

Sayers, Gayle

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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

Rapoport, Anatol

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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 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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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