Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 14, 2009
                
                
                
                    AFRAID OF COMPETITION
Knute Rockne, the famous football coach at Notre Dame, once observed, "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
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Wafford on Nov 24, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Charles Swindoll says that competitive excellence requires one hundred percent all of the time. If you doubt that, try maintaining excellence by setting your standards at 92 percent. Or even 95 percent. People figure they’re doing fine so long as they get somewhat near it. Excellence gets reduced
                    
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                    Three churches, located on different corners of the same intersection, didn't get along together. One Sunday each of them opened their meeting with a rousing song service. It was a warm day and all the doors and windows were wide open. One congregation began singing the old hymn, "Will
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dont knock your competitors.A little competition is a good thing and severe competition is a
                    
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                    Contributed by Ted Sutherland on Mar 12, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In the Seoul Olympics, sailing competitions were under way at Pusan on September 24, 1988, with winds raging at 35 knots and playing havoc with the boats. Two sailors of the Singapore team, Joseph Chan and Shaw Her, were thrown overboard when their boat capsized.
Canada’s Lawrence Lemieux was
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "The carpenter or plumber or painter, the butcher or baker or candlestick maker who would naturally prosper is he who does
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Upon the fields of friendly strife Are sown the seeds That, upon other fields on other days
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Our competitors are often our greatest benefactors. He that wrestles with us strengthens our
                    
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