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

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

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Saroyan, William

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Oerter, Al

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

These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Orpen, Robert

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

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

11.

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

12.

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

Martin, Jerry

14.

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

Sayers, Gayle

16.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

17.

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

Landry, Tom

18.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

19.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

O'Neal, Shaquille

20.

Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Johnson, Patti

21.

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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Westphal, Paul

24.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

25.

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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Abbott, Jim

28.

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

Beecher, Willard

29.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

34.

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Saying

37.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

38.

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

Laver, Rod

39.

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

Ross, Ruth

40.

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

Brock, Lou

41.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

44.

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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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

46.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Shakespeare, William

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.