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

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

Orpen, Robert

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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.

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

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

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Landry, Tom

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

Lamb, Charles

10.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Smith, Dean

11.

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

Gladiator's Salute

12.

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

Walsh, Bill

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Oerter, Al

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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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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 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

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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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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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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

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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 only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Patti

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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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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Italian

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Foyt, A. J.

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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