Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Durocher, Leo

Best Quotes about Competition

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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

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

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

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Martin, Jerry

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Horne, William Van

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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Lopez, Nancy

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

Saroyan, William

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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 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 only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Riley, Pat

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Landry, Tom

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

Campbell, Earl

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

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

Ovid

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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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Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou