Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

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

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Geus, Arie de

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

10.

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

Saying

11.

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Becker, Boris

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

Johnson, Patti

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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

18.

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

Kennedy, John F.

20.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Riley, Pat

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

Martin, Jerry

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

35.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

36.

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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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

38.

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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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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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

42.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Lamb, Charles

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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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

48.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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