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

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

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

Campbell, Earl

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Landry, Tom

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Riley, Pat

10.

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

11.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Lamb, Charles

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

Becker, Boris

13.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

14.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

15.

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

Saying

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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

18.

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

19.

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

Abbott, Jim

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

25.

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

Witt, Katarina

26.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

28.

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

Laver, Rod

29.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

30.

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

Oerter, Al

31.

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

Sayers, Gayle

32.

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

33.

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

Ovid

34.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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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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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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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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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

40.

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

41.

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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Beecher, Willard

44.

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

Brock, Lou

45.

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

Gladiator's Salute

46.

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

Westphal, Paul