Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Jipcho, Ben

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Walsh, Bill

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

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Berra, Yogi

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Brock, Lou

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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

11.

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

Beecher, Willard

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Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.

Sheehan, Patty

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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

16.

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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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

18.

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

Abbott, Jim

19.

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

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

25.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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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.

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

Cauthen, Steve

28.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

Horne, William Van

31.

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

Saroyan, William

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

34.

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Leonard, George

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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

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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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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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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid

40.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Martin, Jerry

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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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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Jipcho, Ben

46.

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

Trevino, Lee

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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 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