Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

2.

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

3.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

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

Witt, Katarina

5.

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

Shakespeare, William

6.

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

Geus, Arie de

7.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

8.

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

9.

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

Oerter, Al

10.

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

11.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

12.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

13.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Holtz, Lou

14.

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

Horne, William Van

15.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

16.

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

17.

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

Hogan, Ben

18.

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

Proverb, Italian

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Trevino, Lee

22.

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

Lassiter, Luther

23.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

26.

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

Ross, Ruth

27.

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

Hoagland, Edward

28.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

29.

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

Campbell, Earl

30.

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

Ovid

31.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

32.

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

33.

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

Orpen, Robert

34.

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

Saroyan, William

35.

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

Berra, Yogi

36.

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

Martin, Jerry

37.

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

38.

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

Landry, Tom

39.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

40.

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

41.

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

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.

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

44.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

45.

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.

46.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

47.

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