Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Ross, Ruth

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Ovid

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Beecher, Marguerite

12.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Witt, Katarina

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Saroyan, William

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Jipcho, Ben

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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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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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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

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Becker, Boris

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