Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Geus, Arie de

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Proverb, Indian

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Geus, Arie de

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

10.

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

Martin, Jerry

11.

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

Foyt, A. J.

12.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Becker, Boris

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Saroyan, William

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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Westphal, Paul

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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

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

Ovid

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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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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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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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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 weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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