Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Saying

Best Quotes about Competition

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.

Laver, Rod

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

Riley, Pat

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Orpen, Robert

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.

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

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

10.

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

Saying

11.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

12.

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

13.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

14.

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

15.

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

Oerter, Al

16.

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

Lamb, Charles

17.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Ross, Ruth

19.

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

20.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

21.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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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.

23.

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

Landry, Tom

24.

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

25.

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

Campbell, Earl

26.

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

Foyt, A. J.

27.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

28.

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

29.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

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

Jipcho, Ben

32.

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

Sayers, Gayle

33.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

34.

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

35.

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

Cauthen, Steve

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

44.

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

Abbott, Jim

45.

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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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

47.

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

Berra, Yogi

48.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

49.

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

50.

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