Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Orpen, Robert

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Witt, Katarina

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Laver, Rod

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

Riley, Pat

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Saroyan, William

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Landry, Tom

15.

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Foyt, A. J.

18.

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

Oerter, Al

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Martin, Jerry

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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

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

Durocher, Leo

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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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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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.