Competitive Spirit Quotes

• 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

  Believe, Shopping, America

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• Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Inspirational, Teacher, Real

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Krishnamurti on Education”, p.106, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• 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

  Spiritual, Pain, Athlete

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• 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

  Perfection, Excellence, Spirit

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• 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

  Kids, Sight, Skills

  "What Rhee's comments about her children say about her" by Valerie Strauss, voices.washingtonpost.com. January 22, 2011.

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• Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Winning, Play, Mind

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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

  Gustavo Kuerten

  Winning, Alive, Spirit

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• People look at my competitive spirit, and they automatically attach it to the thing that's most similar, most easily recognizable, which is Michael [Jordan's] competitive spirit. I'm different. I enjoy building. I enjoy the process of putting the puzzle together, and then the byproduct of that, the consequence of that, is beating somebody. That becomes the cherry on top, the icing on the cake.

  Kobe Bryant

  Cake, People, Together

  "Kobe Bryant Q&A: Future, fashion, legacy and Lamar Odom". Interview with Sam Amick, www.usatoday.com. February 26, 2015.

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• 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

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• 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

  Basketball, Want, Spirit

  "J. Cole On Competition And Writing Honest Songs". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. June 23, 2013.

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• Through fashion I have shown my interpretation of the competitive spirit by dressing sportsmen and women, choosing to work with both those who are among the world's most renowned athletes and also those who are yet to achieve fame in the arena of sport.

  Giorgio Armani

  Sports, Fashion, Athlete

  Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.

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• Coming up, you [got new] sneakers and you had to run outside to make sure everyone saw. It was on display. That's just part of Hip Hop culture, part of the competitive spirit of Hip Hop. This is not new, I don't believe it's new.

  Pusha T

  Running, Believe, Sneakers

  Source: theneptunes.org

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• [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

  Years, Skills, Ego

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The thing with kids is that you only get one chance to do it right. It's really important to share their gifts while they're discovering them. That's why spelling bees are such a compelling story. They stimulate them intellectually, they awaken their competitive spirit, but it's fun. There's something fun about words.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Fun, Kids, Important

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• 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

  Moving, Community, Innovation

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• 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

  Ambition, Thinking, Games

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• 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

  Strong, Real, Cancer

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• 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

  Character, Men, Self

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

  Albert Einstein

  Games, Intellectual, Chess

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