Motivational Quotes

Competition

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

- Shoemaker, Willie

Best Quotes about Competition

Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Johnson, Patti

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Becker, Boris

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.

Sheehan, Patty

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Walsh, Bill

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

Shakespeare, William

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Goldsmith, Oliver

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.

Laver, Rod

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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

13.

Thank God for competition.When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

Atkinson, Gil

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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?

Alexander, Barbara J.

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Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Hamill, Dorothy

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The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.

Westphal, Paul

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You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.

Howe, Gordie

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Tarkenton, Fran

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The game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Oerter, Al

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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Lamb, Charles

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

Morris, William

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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Lopez, Nancy

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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit.

Mansell, Nigel

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Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Beecher, Willard

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How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Trevino, Lee

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You get out in front -- you stay out in front.

Foyt, A. J.

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I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?