Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Clough, Arthur Hugh

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Saroyan, William

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Laver, Rod

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

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

10.

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

11.

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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Westphal, Paul

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

16.

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

Abbott, Jim

17.

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 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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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Riley, Pat

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

Martin, Jerry

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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

24.

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

Hogan, Ben

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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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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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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Shoemaker, Willie

31.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Geus, Arie de

34.

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

41.

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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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Gladiator's Salute

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