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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.
Competition Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Competition

1.
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Proverb, Indian

2.
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

3.
Playing safe is only playing.
Olson, Chuck

4.
You get out in front -- you stay out in front.
Foyt, A. J.

5.
I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
Hogan, Ben

6.
I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.
Cauthen, Steve

7.
And what is the greatest number? Number one.
Hume, David

8.
To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.
Beecher, Marguerite

9.
Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Brock, Lou

10.
Competition is the whetstone of talent.
Saying

11.
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

12.
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
Tarkenton, Fran

13.
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

14.
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

15.
When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
Shakespeare, William

16.
Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
Hoagland, Edward

17.
We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
Kennedy, John F.

18.
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
Knight, Bobby

19.
Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.
Beecher, Willard

20.
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

21.
When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
Witt, Katarina

22.
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
Jipcho, Ben

23.
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

24.
We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
Walsh, Bill

25.
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

26.
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
Clough, Arthur Hugh

27.
When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
Sayers, Gayle

28.
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
Shakespeare, William

29.
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

30.
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
Chamberlain, Wilt

31.
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
Durocher, Leo

32.
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

33.
Competitions are for horse, not artist.
Bartok, Bela

34.
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
Shoemaker, Willie

35.
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

36.
These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
Orpen, Robert

37.
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

38.
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

39.
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.
Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.
Johnson, Patti

41.
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

42.
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

43.
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.
Becker, Boris

44.
Win or lose, do it fairly.
Rockne, Knute

45.
Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.
Guthrie, Janet

46.
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.
Geus, Arie de

47.
When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
Martin, Jerry

48.
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

49.
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

50.
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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