Quotes About Competitive Spirit

#1. It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

Beau Willimon

#2. Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game ... One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit.

Tom Seaver

#3. This is another kind of competition, but I'm being coached by an excellent team, and I've got a real strong competitive spirit.

Peggy Fleming

#4. [On performing in action movies] I've spent all those years learning how to do certain skills, and then that competitive spirit kicks in and you want to do the stunts. Basically, it's the the male competitive ego at work.

Jason Statham

#5. We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building the skills they need to actually be good at things.

Michelle Rhee

#6. Finally my competitive spirit has come alive and I'm winning again.

Gustavo Kuerten

#7. I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.

Mario Andretti

#8. Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#9. I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

J. Cole

#10. Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.

Ann Landers

#11. I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

Edsger Dijkstra

#12. I'm a racer at heart more than anything else, and that will always be my priority: competing. But ultimately, if you can't drive, you can still have the competitive spirit outside of a car.

Jacques Villeneuve

#13. Society asks of most men more than sheer intellect ability-it demands also moral hardiness, self-discipline, a competitive spirit and other qualities that in more old-fashioned terms we might simply call character.

Julius Adams Stratton

#14. 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

#15. Univa developing and supporting Grid Engine is welcome news for the GE community. This move by Univa brings with it a new competitive spirit and sense of innovation to a market that continuously benefits from pushing the envelope.

Ian Foster

#16. I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

Albert Einstein

#17. But every period has its virtues, even a time of turmoil. . . . When

Amor Towles

#18. Where there's no free will, there's no sin.

Claudia Gray

#19. A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.

Paulo Freire

#20. Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone's life

Leo Babauta

#21. The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.

Doris Lessing

#22. I'm not particularly pre-occupied with the husband / baby thing. Besides I have a dog.

Calista Flockhart

#23. Secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.

Tom Sutcliffe

#24. It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

A.J. Ayer

#25. Rose once told me about this poem she'd read. There was this line, 'If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.' You know what I'm afraid of? That someday, even with my eyes open, I still won't know.

Richelle Mead

#26. What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

Richard Koch

#27. Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave.

Lorrie Fair

#28. Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

Madonna Ciccone

#29. I feel like when I'm match tough and match hard and played a lot of matches I got that competitive winning spirit going and I can get on some rolls like I did last year. I won San Jose, Indian Wells and made the semifinals in Miami so it can happen for me.

Lleyton Hewitt

#30. Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.

Albert Einstein

#31. is not a competitive event; it is a cooperative venture. The Spirit distributes his gifts so that believers are compelled to rely on each other in unity, not to contend with each other in selfishness.

Standard Publishing

#32. I'd like to drift into Jessica Tandy-type parts.

Dina Merrill

#33. What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

Soren Kierkegaard