Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Tarkenton, Fran

Best Quotes about Competition

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Geus, Arie de

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Riley, Pat

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

10.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

11.

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

12.

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

Becker, Boris

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

14.

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

15.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

16.

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

Trevino, Lee

17.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

18.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

19.

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

20.

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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Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Beecher, Willard

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

Hoagland, Edward

24.

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

25.

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

Lassiter, Luther

26.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

27.

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

Ovid

28.

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.

Laver, Rod

29.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

30.

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

Jipcho, Ben

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

32.

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

Proverb, Italian

34.

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Walsh, Bill

35.

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

36.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Orpen, Robert

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

41.

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

Sayers, Gayle

43.

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Hogan, Ben