Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

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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

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

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

Brock, Lou

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

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

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

11.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

12.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

13.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Ross, Ruth

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Walsh, Bill

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Riley, Pat

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

Beecher, Willard

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.

Crist, Reggie

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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

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

Campbell, Earl

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