Motivational Quotes

Competition

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

- Kramer, Jerry

Best Quotes about Competition

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hogan, Ben

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

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

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

Westphal, Paul

10.

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

Walsh, Bill

11.

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

Ovid

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Trevino, Lee

18.

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

Proverb, Indian

20.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

21.

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

Proverb, Italian

22.

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

Witt, Katarina

23.

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

Kennedy, John F.

24.

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

25.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

26.

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

Brock, Lou

27.

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

Gladiator's Salute

28.

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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

31.

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

Geus, Arie de

34.

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

35.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

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

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oerter, Al

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

Durocher, Leo

40.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Saroyan, William

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

Foyt, A. J.

48.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.