Motivational Quotes

Competition

He can run but he can't hide.

- Louis, Joe

Best Quotes about Competition

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Riley, Pat

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Shakespeare, William

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Kennedy, John F.

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Sampras, Pete

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

Leonard, George

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

11.

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

Berra, Yogi

12.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

13.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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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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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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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Saying

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

Oerter, Al

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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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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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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

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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

39.

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Saroyan, William

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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

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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