Motivational Quotes

Competition

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Foyt, A. J.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

Johnson, Patti

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Saying

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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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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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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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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Ovid

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Oerter, Al

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Lamb, Charles

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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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

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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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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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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