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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
Competition Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Competition

1.
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

2.
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

3.
And what is the greatest number? Number one.
Hume, David

4.
You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
Riley, Pat

5.
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.

6.
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

7.
Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
Leonard, George

8.
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Jamieson, Mrs.

9.
After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.
Proverb, Italian

10.
I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.
Lassiter, Luther

11.
When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
Martin, Jerry

12.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
Saroyan, William

14.
When the game is over it is really just beginning.
Kramer, Jerry

15.
I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.
Oerter, Al

16.
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

17.
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

18.
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

19.
Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.
Johnson, Patti

20.
We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
Kennedy, John F.

21.
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

22.
Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.
Gladiator's Salute

23.
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
Jipcho, Ben

24.
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.
Competition is the whetstone of talent.
Saying

26.
I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
Hogan, Ben

27.
Win or lose, do it fairly.
Rockne, Knute

28.
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
Durocher, Leo

29.
He can run but he can't hide.
Louis, Joe

30.
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

31.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.
Hubbard, Elbert

32.
Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
Hoagland, Edward

33.
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

34.
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Lamb, Charles

35.
When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
Shakespeare, William

36.
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

37.
The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.
Laver, Rod

38.
The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
Kersee, Jackie Joyner

39.
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

40.
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

41.
I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.
Abbott, Jim

42.
These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
Orpen, Robert

43.
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

44.
When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
Sayers, Gayle

45.
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

46.
You must play boldly to win.
Palmer, Arnold

47.
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Proverb, Indian

48.
Playing safe is only playing.
Olson, Chuck

49.
The game isn't over until it's over.
Berra, Yogi

50.
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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