Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Clough, Arthur Hugh

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Martin, Jerry

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Witt, Katarina

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

Horne, William Van

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

Saying

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Berra, Yogi

11.

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

12.

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.

13.

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

Ross, Ruth

14.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

15.

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

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

19.

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

Geus, Arie de

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

Trevino, Lee

24.

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

25.

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

Gladiator's Salute

26.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

27.

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

Saroyan, William

28.

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

29.

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

Brock, Lou

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Johnson, Patti

34.

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

Foyt, A. J.

35.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

36.

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

Ovid

37.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

38.

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

Riley, Pat

39.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

40.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

41.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

42.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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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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

48.

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

Hogan, Ben

49.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

50.

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

Durocher, Leo