Motivational Quotes

Competition

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.

- Laver, Rod

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Leonard, George

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

Walsh, Bill

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Hoagland, Edward

11.

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

Gladiator's Salute

12.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Lassiter, Luther

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

25.

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

Beecher, Willard

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Horne, William Van

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Ovid

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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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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.