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

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

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

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

Geus, Arie de

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Lamb, Charles

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

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Orpen, Robert

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

10.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

11.

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

Oerter, Al

12.

My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

Roosevelt, Theodore

13.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

14.

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

15.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

16.

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

17.

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

Durocher, Leo

18.

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

19.

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

Becker, Boris

20.

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

Trevino, Lee

21.

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

Proverb, Indian

22.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

23.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

24.

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

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

Riley, Pat

27.

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

Kennedy, John F.

28.

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

Foyt, A. J.

29.

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

Abbott, Jim

30.

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

Berra, Yogi

31.

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

Campbell, Earl

32.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

33.

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

Witt, Katarina

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

38.

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

39.

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

Brock, Lou

40.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

41.

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

42.

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

Laver, Rod

48.

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

Hoagland, Edward