Motivational Quotes

Competition

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

- Gladiator's Salute

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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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 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

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Abbott, Jim

18.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Trevino, Lee

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

Durocher, Leo

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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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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Walsh, Bill

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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 weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

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

Laver, Rod

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Becker, Boris

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Berra, Yogi