Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

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

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

Durocher, Leo

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

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

Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Johnson, Patti

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

10.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

11.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

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

Leonard, George

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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

15.

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

Oerter, Al

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

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

18.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Becker, Boris

19.

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

Abbott, Jim

20.

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

Proverb, Italian

21.

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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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

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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Campbell, Earl

26.

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

Orpen, Robert

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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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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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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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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

32.

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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Laver, Rod

35.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

36.

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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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 want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

39.

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

Westphal, Paul

41.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

43.

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

Foyt, A. J.

44.

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

Hogan, Ben

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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

49.

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

Geus, Arie de