Motivational Quotes

Competition

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.

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Leonard, George

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

Saying

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

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Oerter, Al

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

Campbell, Earl

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Lassiter, Luther

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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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Alexander, Barbara J.

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Becker, Boris

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

30.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Foyt, A. J.

41.

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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