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Quotes About Competition

I had no friends. I wasn't there to make friends. I was there to win.
~ Ted Lindsay
Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.
~ John Podhoretz
In chess you try to do your best, but there are instances where you make mistakes or you try and take risks that you shouldn't. And I think losing games is a good thing, because you learn more from when you lose than when you win.
~ Hikaru Nakamura
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
~ Jean-Michel Basquiat
I'll take an ugly win over a pretty loss any day.
~ Julian Edelman
You can't always win - although we always try!
~ Daniel Ricciardo
Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
~ Gabriel Medina
If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
~ Derek Jeter
I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
~ Eric Cantona
I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.
~ Lou Gehrig
God creates us to compete. He creates us to win. It matters. But you've got no chance if you don't do your best.
~ Dabo Swinney
I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.
~ Mesut Ozil
As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.
~ Stan Wawrinka
There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you want to win the game, you have to be aggressive.
~ Marouane Fellaini
That's boxing - one punch can win a fight.
~ Amir Khan
To survive in the NFC West, we have to win in the trenches.
~ Jeff Fisher
You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you're outscored.
~ John Wooden
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
What I love is to win. What I love is being number one.
~ Bernard Arnault
If you're not in the game to win, you shouldn't be in the game.
~ Jerry Yang
Real Madrid are obliged to win always - this jersey makes it an obligation.
~ Casemiro
You have to show you have ambition as a team, as a group of players; show you want to win. Otherwise, in my opinion, you can't win a tournament.
~ Kevin De Bruyne
The Special Olympics motto, 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,' really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that's all any of us can hope for - a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.
~ Hannah Teter