Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Berra, Yogi

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Campbell, Earl

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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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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Saying

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How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Trevino, Lee

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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

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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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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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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Laver, Rod

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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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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

Stenmark, Ingemar

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Oerter, Al

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The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.

Westphal, Paul

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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

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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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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

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Durocher, Leo

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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Win or lose, do it fairly.