Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Hoagland, Edward

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Becker, Boris

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

Martin, Jerry

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Horne, William Van

11.

These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Orpen, Robert

12.

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

13.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

14.

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

Trevino, Lee

15.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

19.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

20.

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

Ross, Ruth

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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

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Durocher, Leo

26.

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

34.

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

Gladiator's Salute

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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Berra, Yogi

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Leonard, George