Motivational Quotes

Competition

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Competition

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

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

Cauthen, Steve

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

Beecher, Willard

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

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

Gladiator's Salute

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

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

Ross, Ruth

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

10.

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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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Riley, Pat

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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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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Becker, Boris

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

Martin, Jerry

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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

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Durocher, Leo

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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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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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My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Berra, Yogi

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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.