Motivational Quotes

Competition

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

- Bradley, Bill

Best Quotes about Competition

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

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

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Martin, Jerry

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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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

11.

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

Laver, Rod

12.

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

Ross, Ruth

13.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Berra, Yogi

15.

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

Trevino, Lee

16.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Jipcho, Ben

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Westphal, Paul

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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid

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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

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

Proverb, Indian

29.

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Saroyan, William

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Horne, William Van

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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 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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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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

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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