Motivational Quotes

Competition

You must play boldly to win.

- Palmer, Arnold

Best Quotes about Competition

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

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Johnson, Patti

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

The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

Horne, William Van

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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

11.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Leonard, George

17.

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

Becker, Boris

18.

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

Campbell, Earl

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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Orpen, Robert

25.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

26.

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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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Durocher, Leo

35.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Gladiator's Salute

40.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

41.

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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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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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

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Saying

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The Law of Win Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.

Anderson, Greg

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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.