Motivational Quotes

Competition

Win or lose, do it fairly.

- Rockne, Knute

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Brock, Lou

14.

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

Gladiator's Salute

15.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

16.

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

17.

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

Cauthen, Steve

18.

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

Saying

19.

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

Sayers, Gayle

20.

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

21.

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

22.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

23.

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

Riley, Pat

24.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

25.

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

Hogan, Ben

26.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

27.

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

Westphal, Paul

28.

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

29.

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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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

31.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Orpen, Robert

33.

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

Beecher, Willard

34.

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

35.

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Geus, Arie de

36.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Saroyan, William

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

Becker, Boris

39.

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

Ross, Ruth

40.

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

Walsh, Bill

41.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

42.

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

43.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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

45.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

46.

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Ovid

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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