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 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

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Saying

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Hamill, Dorothy

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

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

Becker, Boris

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

Ovid

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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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

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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Kennedy, John F.

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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 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

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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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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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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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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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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

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Brock, Lou

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Geus, Arie de

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