Motivational Quotes

Competition

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

- Lassiter, Luther

Best Quotes about Competition

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

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Orpen, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Proverb, Italian

10.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Sayers, Gayle

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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 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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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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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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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Foyt, A. J.

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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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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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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

Shakespeare, William

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

Oerter, Al

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

Martin, Jerry

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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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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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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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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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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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

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

Horne, William Van

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

O'Neal, Shaquille

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

Saying

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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