Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Durocher, Leo

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

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

Saying

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

Ovid

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

Horne, William Van

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Orpen, Robert

12.

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

13.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

15.

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

16.

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

Walsh, Bill

17.

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

Ross, Ruth

18.

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

Campbell, Earl

19.

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

20.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

21.

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

22.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

23.

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

Lamb, Charles

24.

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

Jipcho, Ben

25.

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

26.

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

Becker, Boris

27.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

28.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

29.

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

30.

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

Sayers, Gayle

31.

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

Hoagland, Edward

32.

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

33.

I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Hogan, Ben

34.

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

Martin, Jerry

35.

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

Saroyan, William

36.

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

Trevino, Lee

37.

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

Berra, Yogi

38.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

40.

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

Lassiter, Luther

41.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

42.

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

43.

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

44.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

45.

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

Foyt, A. J.

49.

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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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