Motivational Quotes

Competition

You must play boldly to win.

- Palmer, Arnold

Best Quotes about Competition

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Beecher, Willard

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid

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

Leonard, George

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

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

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

10.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

13.

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

Gladiator's Salute

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Brock, Lou

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Becker, Boris

20.

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

21.

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

Sayers, Gayle

22.

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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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

25.

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

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

Orpen, Robert

27.

Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tarkenton, Fran

30.

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

Johnson, Patti

31.

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

Kennedy, John F.

32.

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

Oerter, Al

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.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

35.

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

Cauthen, Steve

36.

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

Jipcho, Ben

37.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Saroyan, William

40.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

41.

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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

43.

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

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

45.

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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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

48.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.