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

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

Becker, Boris

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

Witt, Katarina

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

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Oerter, Al

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

Saroyan, William

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Hamill, Dorothy

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Leonard, George

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

Foyt, A. J.

13.

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

14.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

15.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

22.

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

Laver, Rod

24.

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

25.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

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

28.

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

Berra, Yogi

29.

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

30.

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

Geus, Arie de

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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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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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hogan, Ben

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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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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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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Horne, William Van

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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

48.

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Cauthen, Steve