Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Riley, Pat

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 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

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

Kennedy, John F.

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Walsh, Bill

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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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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

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Saroyan, William

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Martin, Jerry

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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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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Westphal, Paul

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Oerter, Al

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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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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

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

Horne, William Van

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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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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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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von