Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Clough, Arthur Hugh

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Leonard, George

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Landry, Tom

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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

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Horne, William Van

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

Westphal, Paul

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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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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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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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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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I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

Stenmark, Ingemar

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Campbell, Earl

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Riley, Pat

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Ross, Ruth

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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 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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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