Motivational Quotes

Competition

Playing safe is only playing.

- Olson, Chuck

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cauthen, Steve

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

Riley, Pat

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

Saroyan, William

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

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

10.

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

Brock, Lou

11.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

12.

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

Leonard, George

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

Beecher, Willard

18.

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

19.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

24.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.

Howe, Gordie

25.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

26.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

27.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Proverb, Indian

30.

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

31.

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

Jipcho, Ben

32.

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

33.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

35.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Lamb, Charles

38.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

39.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

40.

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

Walsh, Bill

41.

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

Berra, Yogi

42.

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Becker, Boris

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Proverb, Italian

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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.