Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Durocher, Leo

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

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

Westphal, Paul

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.

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

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

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

10.

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

Beecher, Willard

11.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

12.

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Proverb, Italian

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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

18.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Hoagland, Edward

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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Wriston, Walter

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Walsh, Bill

33.

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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We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Campbell, Earl

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Ross, Ruth

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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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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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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