Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Orpen, Robert

Best Quotes about Competition

Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Johnson, Patti

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

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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.

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

Foyt, A. J.

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Oerter, Al

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Laver, Rod

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Becker, Boris

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Shoemaker, Willie