Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

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

Becker, Boris

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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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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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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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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Berra, Yogi

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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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

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Saying

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

Saroyan, William

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mansell, Nigel

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Lamb, Charles

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Walsh, Bill