Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Beecher, Willard

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ross, Ruth

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

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

Abbott, Jim

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

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

Hogan, Ben

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

10.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Campbell, Earl

12.

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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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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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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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 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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.

Beecher, Marguerite

27.

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

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

Oerter, Al

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Becker, Boris

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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

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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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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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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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When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sayers, Gayle

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