Quotes About Competition

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.

In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and sometimes they don't.

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.