Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Laver, Rod

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Oerter, Al

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Orpen, Robert

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Saroyan, William

10.

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

11.

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

Lassiter, Luther

12.

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

Abbott, Jim

13.

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

Martin, Jerry

14.

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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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

16.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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

18.

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

Westphal, Paul

19.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

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

Johnson, Patti

21.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

22.

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

Gladiator's Salute

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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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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

25.

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

Foyt, A. J.

26.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

27.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

28.

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

Kennedy, John F.

29.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

30.

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

Ovid

31.

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

Hogan, Ben

32.

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

Beecher, Willard

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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

37.

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

Proverb, Indian

38.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

40.

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

Campbell, Earl

41.

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

Walsh, Bill

42.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Proverb, Italian

48.

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

Trevino, Lee

49.

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

Ross, Ruth

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