Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Clough, Arthur Hugh

Best Quotes about Competition

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

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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

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Geus, Arie de

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

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

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

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Johnson, Patti

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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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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?

Alexander, Barbara J.

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

Oerter, Al

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

Cauthen, Steve

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Horne, William Van

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

Jipcho, Ben

28.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Proverb, Italian

30.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Durocher, Leo

33.

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Lamb, Charles

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