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

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Becker, Boris

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

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

Ovid

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

Saying

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.

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

Walsh, Bill

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

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

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Beecher, Willard

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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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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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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

41.

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

Berra, Yogi

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

43.

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Martin, Jerry

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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.