Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

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

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Walsh, Bill

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

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

Laver, Rod

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

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Leonard, George

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

Hogan, Ben

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

21.

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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Saroyan, William

25.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Ovid

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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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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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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Lassiter, Luther

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Proverb, Italian