Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Westphal, Paul

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.

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

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

Durocher, Leo

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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

Saroyan, William

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Jipcho, Ben

15.

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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 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

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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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You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.

Falcon, Joe

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

Ovid

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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Tarkenton, Fran

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

28.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Ross, Ruth

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Riley, Pat

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

Lamb, Charles

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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Saying

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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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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

41.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Campbell, Earl

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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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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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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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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Becker, Boris

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

Martin, Jerry