Motivational Quotes

Competition

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

- Bradley, Bill

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Westphal, Paul

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

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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

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

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

Oerter, Al

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Beecher, Willard