Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Becker, Boris

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

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

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

Abbott, Jim

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Kennedy, John F.

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

10.

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

Beecher, Willard

11.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

15.

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

Witt, Katarina

16.

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

Martin, Jerry

17.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

Saying

21.

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

22.

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

Campbell, Earl

23.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

24.

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

Saroyan, William

25.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

26.

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Oerter, Al

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Riley, Pat

30.

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

31.

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

Berra, Yogi

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Carnegie, Andrew

35.

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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

37.

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

Proverb, Indian

38.

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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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

40.

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

Geus, Arie de

41.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Tarkenton, Fran

47.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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