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I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a
football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your
objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to
heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another
Saturday.' The trouble in American life today, in business as well as
in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The
result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if
it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.
Author: Knute Kenneth Rockne
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in
friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something
doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready,
RIGHT NOW.
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
Author: David Sarnoff
Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows
out of a habit of mind.
Author: Willard Beecher
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only
sustainable competitive advantage.
Author: Arie de Geus
Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing
it up with friends; it's the competition.
Author: Al Unser, Jr.
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not
wait till they plunder our very homes.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Competition is the whetstone of talent.
Author: Traditional Proverb
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game,
you have to learn.
Author: Tom Landry
When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
Author: Jerry Martin
These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
Author: Robert Orpen
Win or lose, do it fairly.
Author: Knute Rockne
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you
stand still, they will swallow you.
Author: William Knudsen
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
Author: William Saroyan
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in
competition -- in having put forth the best within you
Author: Henry J. Kaiser
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.
Author: Patty Sheehan
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
Author: Willian van Horne
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is
greater than that of competition.
Author: Henry Clay
The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.
Author: Paul Westphal
Competition is the whetstone of talent.
Author: Proverb
The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner
satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have
gotten the most out of what you had to give.
Author: Howard Cosell
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. ?Vince
Lombardi or ?Donald Kendall My grandfather once told me that there are
two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the
credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less
competition there. ?Indira Gandhi I love deadlines. I like the
whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ?Douglas Adams There are no
menial jobs, only menial attitudes. ?William Bennett The world is full
of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
?Robert Frost When work is a pleasure, life is a joy; when work is a
duty, life is slavery. ?Maksim Gorky One machine can do the work of
fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary
man. ?Elbert Hubbard It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly
unless one has plenty of work to do. ?Jerome K Jerome One of the
symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's
work is terribly important. ?Bertrand Russell Ninety-eight percent of
the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans.
It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But
then--we elected them. ?Lily Tomlin Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
?Robert Benchley Opportunity is missed by most people because it is
dressed in overalls and looks like work. ?Thomas Edison Hard work
spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some
turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. ?Sam Ewing Real
success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. ?David
McCullough Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody
else to do the work. ?John G. Pollard Banker: A fellow who lends you
his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it
begins to rain. ?Mark Twain
Author: Vince Lombardi
Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of
matching skill against skill and wit against wit.
Author: Lou Brock
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those
who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be
in the first group; there was much less competition.
Author: Indira Gandhi
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the
individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival
of the fittest in every department.
Author: Andrew Carnegie
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Author: Henry Ford Ii
Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.
Author: Daniel Burrus
The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so
little competition.
Author: William Van Horne
To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail
the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.
Author: Marguerite Beecher
Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows
out of a habit of mind.
Author: Willard Beecher |
