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Quotes About Competition

The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.
~ Pierre de Coubertin
Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.
~ Robin Sharma
We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.
~ Jeff Bezos
I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
~ Hank Aaron
The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.
~ Carl David Anderson
I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.
~ Nigel Short
If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off
~ Nigel Short
The main thing is winning. Stats aren't that important, but I think in the end things will work themselves out.
~ John Harbaugh
Always work the ref's blind side.
~ Fritzie Zivic
Everybody likes to win. I don't care if you work for a small plumbing company or the most successful company in the world. There's a special flavor to winning.
~ Marcelo Claure
It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.
~ Dale Earnhardt
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
~ Jeff Bezos
No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
~ Victoria Principal
I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.
~ John D. Rockefeller
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.
~ Thomas Friedman
I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.
~ Tom Odell
It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
~ Thomas Friedman
Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!
~ Mike Milbury
People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.
~ Perry Como
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
~ Susan Sontag
Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.
~ Will Rogers
I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.
~ Carl Yastrzemski
Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it
~ Charles Sheldon
In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
~ Danica Patrick