Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Campbell, Earl

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

10.

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

Ross, Ruth

11.

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

Geus, Arie de

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

13.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Saying

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

Oerter, Al

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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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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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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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

29.

You get out in front -- you stay out in front.

Foyt, A. J.

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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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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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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

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Johnson, Patti

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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

40.

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

Campbell, Earl

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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