Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Beecher, Willard

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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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

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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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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

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Becker, Boris

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Berra, Yogi

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Campbell, Earl

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Oerter, Al

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

Ross, Ruth

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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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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 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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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.