Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Martin, Jerry

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

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Ovid

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

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

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

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Horne, William Van

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Beecher, Willard

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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

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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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Hogan, Ben

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In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.

Ross, Ruth

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

Oerter, Al

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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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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

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

Saying

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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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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 get out in front -- you stay out in front.

Foyt, A. J.

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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

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.