Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Foyt, A. J.

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Leonard, George

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

Jipcho, Ben

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

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

Walsh, Bill

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Geus, Arie de

15.

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

Durocher, Leo

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

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

Saying

21.

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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Horne, William Van

26.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

27.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

29.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

30.

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

31.

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 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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

40.

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

Lamb, Charles

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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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When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Martin, Jerry

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby