Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Walsh, Bill

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Tarkenton, Fran

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.

Hubbard, Elbert

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Abbott, Jim

11.

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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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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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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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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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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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For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game.

Rice, Grantland

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It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.

Crist, Reggie

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

Laver, Rod

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Ross, Ruth

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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 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 weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.