Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Horne, William Van

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

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

Laver, Rod

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

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

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

Martin, Jerry

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Beecher, Willard

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

Riley, Pat

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

Ovid

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Witt, Katarina

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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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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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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Gladiator's Salute

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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

39.

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

Abbott, Jim

40.

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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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

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Leonard, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von