Motivational Quotes

Competition

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Competition

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

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

Witt, Katarina

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

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

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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

10.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

11.

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

Proverb, Indian

12.

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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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

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

Ovid

15.

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

Campbell, Earl

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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Leonard, George

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

Johnson, Patti

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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 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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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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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

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold