Competitive Quotes

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Margaret Mead

Family, Once, Sister

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
Michael Jordan

Game, Real, Win

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

Truth, Judge, Afraid

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.
Michael Jordan

Time, Great, Basketball

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.
Mitt Romney

Best, Children, Cannot

A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us and we will win.
Mitt Romney

Win, Divide, Prepares

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch

Learning, Learn, Action

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell

Society, Children, Credit

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.
Anne M. Mulcahy

Best, Greatest, Company

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
Arthur Keith

Nature, Jealous, Ambitious

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.
Tyra Banks

Past, Try, Push

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
Germaine Greer

Pain, Spiritual, May

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
Courteney Cox

Peace, Age, Past

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
Zac Efron

Nature, Great, Best

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
Richard M. Nixon

Sports, Win, Builds

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.
Steven Spielberg

Live, Worry, Property

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.
Tom Brady

Attitude, Heart, Blessed

If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm over-the-hill or I'm ready to quit or whatever.
Dale Earnhardt

Saying, Understand, Whatever

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
Jack Welch

Advantage, Compete

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
Barbara Bush

Women, Nice, Person

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.
Jose Mourinho

Time, Selfish, Here

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.
Katy Perry

Best, Forward, Trying

People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
Dale Earnhardt

Young, Older, Guys

I'm quite a competitive person, so I do quite like to win.
Hugh Jackman

Person, Win, Quite

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
Conan O'Brien

War, Fire, Friends

There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely competitive approach to life, treating the planet as if it has infinite resources and pitting one country against another for supremacy.
Simon Mainwaring

Life, Country, Another

Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will increasingly define their ability to reach customers that only allow what is meaningful in their lives to pass through their filter.
Simon Mainwaring

Through, Purpose, Lives

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
Boris Johnson

Work, Place, London

And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.
Wayne Gretzky

Away, Tell, Hockey

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.
Wentworth Miller

Best, Person, Else

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