Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Brock, Lou

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Oerter, Al

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

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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

11.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lamb, Charles

13.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

14.

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Saying

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Ovid

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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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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 the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Jipcho, Ben

28.

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

Abbott, Jim

30.

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Campbell, Earl

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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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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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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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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Laver, Rod

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

Orpen, Robert

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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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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Saroyan, William

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You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.

Falcon, Joe