Motivational Quotes

Competition

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

- Bartok, Bela

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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.

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

Lamb, Charles

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

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

Landry, Tom

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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 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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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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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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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Oerter, Al

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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

20.

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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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Saying

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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

35.

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Hogan, Ben

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.

Carlyle, Thomas

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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