Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Geus, Arie de

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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

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Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Leonard, George

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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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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Shakespeare, William

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Campbell, Earl

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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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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

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

Saying

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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

31.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Sayers, Gayle

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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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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.