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

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

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

Becker, Boris

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Saroyan, William

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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.

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

Martin, Jerry

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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

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Geus, Arie de

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Horne, William Van

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Saying

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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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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.

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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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Allison, Eric

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

Laver, Rod

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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

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Cauthen, Steve

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.