Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Gladiator's Salute

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Laver, Rod

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

Proverb, Indian

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.

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Witt, Katarina

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Campbell, Earl

11.

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

Martin, Jerry

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Leonard, George

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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

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Foyt, A. J.

28.

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

Saying

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

Ovid

33.

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

Walsh, Bill

34.

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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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

36.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

39.

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

Lamb, Charles

41.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sayers, Gayle

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Geus, Arie de

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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