Motivational Quotes

Competition

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Shakespeare, William

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Witt, Katarina

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Orpen, Robert

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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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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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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Foyt, A. J.

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Proverb, Italian

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Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.

Falcon, Joe

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

Proverb, Indian

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