Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Hoagland, Edward

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Shakespeare, William

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

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

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

10.

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

11.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

12.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

13.

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

Proverb, Indian

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Oerter, Al

17.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

18.

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

19.

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

Gladiator's Salute

20.

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

Westphal, Paul

22.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Italian

25.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

26.

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

Martin, Jerry

27.

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

28.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

29.

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

30.

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

Beecher, Willard

31.

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

Berra, Yogi

32.

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

Abbott, Jim

33.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

34.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

36.

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Saroyan, William

38.

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

Durocher, Leo

39.

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

Jipcho, Ben

40.

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

Riley, Pat

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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

42.

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

Ross, Ruth

43.

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

44.

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

45.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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