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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
Competition Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Competition

1.
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

2.
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

3.
Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.
Campbell, Earl

4.
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

5.
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
Clough, Arthur Hugh

6.
The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.
Saying

7.
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.

8.
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

9.
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
Landry, Tom

10.
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

11.
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

12.
Most games are lost, not won.
Stengel, Casey

13.
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Jamieson, Mrs.

14.
When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
Shakespeare, William

15.
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
Tarkenton, Fran

16.
I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.
Abbott, Jim

17.
I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.
Oerter, Al

18.
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

19.
The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.
Westphal, Paul

20.
When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
Sayers, Gayle

21.
You must play boldly to win.
Palmer, Arnold

22.
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
Shakespeare, William

23.
I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
Hogan, Ben

24.
After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.
Proverb, Italian

25.
Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.
Gladiator's Salute

26.
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

27.
We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
Kennedy, John F.

28.
These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
Orpen, Robert

29.
Competition is the whetstone of talent.
Saying

30.
When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
Witt, Katarina

31.
Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.
Guthrie, Janet

32.
Playing safe is only playing.
Olson, Chuck

33.
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

34.
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

35.
I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
Richards, Bob

36.
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

37.
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Proverb, Indian

38.
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.

39.
How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
Trevino, Lee

40.
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

41.
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.
Becker, Boris

42.
Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
Leonard, George

43.
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
Shoemaker, Willie

44.
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

45.
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

46.
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid

47.
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.
Geus, Arie de

48.
The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.
Horne, William Van

49.
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

50.
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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