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

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

Geus, Arie de

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

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Beecher, Willard

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

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

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Westphal, Paul

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Horne, William Van

12.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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.

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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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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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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Oerter, Al

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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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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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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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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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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 weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Ross, Ruth

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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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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

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Kennedy, John F.

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