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

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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

Landry, Tom

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Horne, William Van

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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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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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These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Orpen, Robert

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Oerter, Al

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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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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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 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

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Riley, Pat

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Lamb, Charles

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saroyan, William

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

Saying

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

Westphal, Paul

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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Durocher, Leo

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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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