Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Proverb, Italian

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Saying

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

Orpen, Robert

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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Campbell, Earl

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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.

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

Oerter, Al

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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 only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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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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

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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

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

Westphal, Paul

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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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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

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hogan, Ben

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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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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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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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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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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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

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh