Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Campbell, Earl

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Hogan, Ben

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

10.

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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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

12.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

13.

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

Horne, William Van

14.

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

Laver, Rod

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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 only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Ovid

21.

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

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

Oerter, Al

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

Sayers, Gayle

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

28.

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

Trevino, Lee

33.

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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Johnson, Patti

36.

It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.

Crist, Reggie

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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.

42.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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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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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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

Abbott, Jim

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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