Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Laver, Rod

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

Trevino, Lee

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.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

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 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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Berra, Yogi

13.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

14.

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

Riley, Pat

15.

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

Gladiator's Salute

16.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

17.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

18.

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

19.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

Kennedy, John F.

20.

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

Geus, Arie de

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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

22.

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

Proverb, Indian

23.

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

24.

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

Johnson, Patti

25.

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Walsh, Bill

26.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

28.

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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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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

35.

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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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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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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

40.

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

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

Saroyan, William

42.

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

Martin, Jerry

43.

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

44.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

46.

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

Durocher, Leo

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