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

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Leonard, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Abbott, Jim

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

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

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

Horne, William Van

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

Shoemaker, Willie

10.

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

Saroyan, William

11.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

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

Ross, Ruth

13.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Jipcho, Ben

16.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Geus, Arie de

18.

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Gladiator's Salute

19.

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

20.

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

Durocher, Leo

21.

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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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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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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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

26.

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

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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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Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

30.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

31.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

33.

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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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.