Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Foyt, A. J.

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Leonard, George

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Ovid

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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

11.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

12.

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

Brock, Lou

13.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Geus, Arie de

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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

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Orpen, Robert

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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Ross, Ruth

30.

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

Landry, Tom

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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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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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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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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 Law of Win Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.

Anderson, Greg

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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

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Saying

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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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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

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

50.

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Walsh, Bill