Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Saying

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Riley, Pat

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.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

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

Leonard, George

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Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Johnson, Patti

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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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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

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Oerter, Al

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Lamb, Charles

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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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The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Sampras, Pete

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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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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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