Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Hoagland, Edward

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Indian

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

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Trevino, Lee

10.

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

Durocher, Leo

11.

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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Riley, Pat

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Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

Campbell, Earl

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

20.

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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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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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Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Johnson, Patti

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Saying

27.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

30.

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

Witt, Katarina

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

Saroyan, William

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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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To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.

Beecher, Marguerite

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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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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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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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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

39.

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

Gladiator's Salute

40.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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

44.

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

Walsh, Bill

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

47.

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

Cauthen, Steve

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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.