Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Landry, Tom

There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there.

Gandhi, Indira

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Horne, William Van

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.

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

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

10.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

12.

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

13.

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

Sayers, Gayle

14.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

15.

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

16.

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

Jipcho, Ben

17.

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Leonard, George

18.

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

Walsh, Bill

19.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

20.

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

Westphal, Paul

21.

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

Durocher, Leo

22.

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

Hogan, Ben

23.

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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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

25.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

26.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

27.

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

Oerter, Al

28.

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

Becker, Boris

29.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

30.

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

31.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

32.

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

33.

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

Orpen, Robert

34.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

35.

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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Johnson, Patti

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