Motivational Quotes

Competition

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

- Saying

Best Quotes about Competition

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Landry, Tom

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Saying

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Saroyan, William

10.

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

11.

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

Kennedy, John F.

12.

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

Martin, Jerry

13.

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

Oerter, Al

14.

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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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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Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Leonard, George

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

Lamb, Charles

18.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

19.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

20.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

21.

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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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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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

24.

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

Jipcho, Ben

25.

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

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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.

28.

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

Ross, Ruth

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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

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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

35.

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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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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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

38.

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

Foyt, A. J.

39.

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

Proverb, Italian

40.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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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

42.

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Riley, Pat

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