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After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.
-Italian Proverb
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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
-Proverb
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I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.
-Jim Abbott
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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
-Andre Agassi
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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?
-Barbara J. Alexander
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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.
-Eric Allison
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The Law of Win/Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.
-Greg Anderson
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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.
-Arthur Ashe
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
-Arthur Ashe
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Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.
-Gil Atkinson
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Competitions are for horse, not artist.
-Bela Bartok
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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.
-Boris Becker
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To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.
-Marguerite Beecher
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Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.
-Willard Beecher
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What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
-Patty Berg
In The Golfer's Book of Wisdom, ed. by Criswell Freeman, 1995
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
-Wendell Berry
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
-Bill Bradley
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Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.
-Lou Brock, "Christian Science Monitor", January 20, 1975
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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.
-Daniel Burrus
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Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.
-Earl Campbell
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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.
-Thomas Carlyle
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I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.
-Steve Cauthen
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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
-Wilt Chamberlain
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Books about Competition
