Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

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 the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Beecher, Willard

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Saroyan, William

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

10.

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.

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

Orpen, Robert

12.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

13.

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

14.

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

Saying

15.

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

16.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

Kennedy, John F.

17.

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

Cauthen, Steve

18.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

20.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

21.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

22.

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Geus, Arie de

24.

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

Hoagland, Edward

25.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Jipcho, Ben

27.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

32.

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

Brock, Lou

33.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

34.

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

35.

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

Laver, Rod

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

37.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

38.

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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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

40.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

41.

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

42.

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

Sayers, Gayle

43.

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

Proverb, Italian

44.

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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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

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Oerter, Al

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

Becker, Boris