Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Saying

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Witt, Katarina

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

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

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

10.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

11.

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

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

Sayers, Gayle

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

14.

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

Ovid

15.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Trevino, Lee

16.

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

Lamb, Charles

18.

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

Leonard, George

19.

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

Landry, Tom

20.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

21.

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

Kennedy, John F.

22.

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

Saying

23.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

24.

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

Hogan, Ben

25.

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

Gladiator's Salute

26.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

27.

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

Saroyan, William

28.

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Laver, Rod

30.

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

32.

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

33.

I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

Stenmark, Ingemar

34.

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

Proverb, Italian

35.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Riley, Pat

37.

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

38.

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

Berra, Yogi

39.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

40.

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

Cauthen, Steve

41.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.