Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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.

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

Laver, Rod

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

Jipcho, Ben

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Gladiator's Salute

10.

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

Martin, Jerry

11.

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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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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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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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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Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Beecher, Willard

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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

18.

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

19.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

20.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

21.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Horne, William Van

25.

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

Lassiter, Luther

27.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game.

Rice, Grantland

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

31.

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

Walsh, Bill

32.

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

33.

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

34.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Riley, Pat

35.

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Saroyan, William

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Saying

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