Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

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

Lamb, Charles

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

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

Landry, Tom

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

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

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

11.

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

Gladiator's Salute

12.

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

13.

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

Beecher, Willard

15.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Holtz, Lou

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Lassiter, Luther

18.

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

Abbott, Jim

19.

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

Foyt, A. J.

20.

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.

21.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

22.

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

Martin, Jerry

23.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

24.

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

25.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

26.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

27.

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

Saroyan, William

28.

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

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.

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

31.

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

Walsh, Bill

32.

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

33.

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

Horne, William Van

34.

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

Durocher, Leo

35.

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

Trevino, Lee

36.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Hogan, Ben

40.

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

41.

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

Campbell, Earl

42.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

43.

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

Westphal, Paul

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