Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Tarkenton, Fran

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hogan, Ben

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

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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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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.

23.

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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

Laver, Rod

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Witt, Katarina

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Martin, Jerry

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

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

Walsh, Bill

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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 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

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