Motivational Quotes

Competition

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

- Bradley, Bill

Best Quotes about Competition

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

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

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Ross, Ruth

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

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

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

Westphal, Paul

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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 won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

Richards, Bob

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Sayers, Gayle

22.

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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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

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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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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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

34.

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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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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The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Geus, Arie de

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

Witt, Katarina

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Saroyan, William

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After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.

Proverb, Italian

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

Horne, William Van

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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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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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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