Motivational Quotes

Competition

He can run but he can't hide.

- Louis, Joe

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Martin, Jerry

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third-best horse and win.

Aragon, Vicky

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Jipcho, Ben

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Becker, Boris

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Saying

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lamb, Charles

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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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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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Laver, Rod

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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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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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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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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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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Campbell, Earl

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In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.

Ross, Ruth

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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