Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Gladiator's Salute

Best Quotes about 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

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Laver, Rod

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

Leonard, George

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

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

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

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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

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

Jipcho, Ben

12.

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

Ross, Ruth

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Saying

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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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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

18.

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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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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

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Westphal, Paul

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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 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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Becker, Boris

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Beecher, Willard

43.

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

Horne, William Van

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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

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

Geus, Arie de