Motivational Quotes

Competition

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about 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

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

Leonard, George

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

Cauthen, Steve

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

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

Berra, Yogi

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Oerter, Al

10.

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

Becker, Boris

11.

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

Laver, Rod

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

Westphal, Paul

13.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Geus, Arie de

25.

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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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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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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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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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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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

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Ross, Ruth

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Saroyan, William

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Proverb, Italian

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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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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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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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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