Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Tarkenton, Fran

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Ovid

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Becker, Boris

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Walsh, Bill

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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

11.

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

Johnson, Patti

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Gladiator's Salute

15.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Horne, William Van

18.

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

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Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ross, Ruth

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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

25.

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

Martin, Jerry

26.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Abbott, Jim

34.

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

Kennedy, John F.

35.

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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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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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Durocher, Leo

46.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Geus, Arie de

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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