Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Laver, Rod

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

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Durocher, Leo

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Trevino, Lee

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 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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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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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Leonard, George

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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

21.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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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

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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

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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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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.

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Oerter, Al

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Westphal, Paul

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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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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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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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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 weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Campbell, Earl

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