Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Saying

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Laver, Rod

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

Riley, Pat

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

10.

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

11.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

12.

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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

14.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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

17.

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

Abbott, Jim

18.

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

19.

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

Ovid

20.

How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?

Alexander, Barbara J.

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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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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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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

24.

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

Saroyan, William

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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

28.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

29.

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

Geus, Arie de

31.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

33.

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

34.

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

35.

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

37.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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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

39.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Johnson, Patti

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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

Horne, William Van

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Kennedy, John F.

50.

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