Motivational Quotes

Competition

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

- Landry, Tom

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Foyt, A. J.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Walsh, Bill

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.

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

Hoagland, Edward

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

10.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

11.

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

12.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Berra, Yogi

16.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

17.

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

Gladiator's Salute

18.

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

Westphal, Paul

19.

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

20.

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

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

Lamb, Charles

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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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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

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

Proverb, Italian

27.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

28.

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

Ross, Ruth

29.

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

Horne, William Van

30.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

32.

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

Hogan, Ben

33.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Leonard, George

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

Laver, Rod

37.

I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

Stenmark, Ingemar

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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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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I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

Abbott, Jim

41.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Geus, Arie de

43.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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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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