Motivational Quotes

Competition

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Oerter, Al

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

Beecher, Willard

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

The Law of Win Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.

Anderson, Greg

I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.

Penick, Harvey

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.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

Horne, William Van

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Leonard, George

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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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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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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

Sayers, Gayle

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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Riley, Pat

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

Becker, Boris

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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid

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In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.

Ross, Ruth

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There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

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One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

Rapoport, Anatol

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World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition.Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.

Allison, Eric

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This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

O'Neal, Shaquille

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The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Sampras, Pete

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Johnson, Patti

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I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Hogan, Ben

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The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

Kersee, Jackie Joyner

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Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Jipcho, Ben

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It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

Agassi, Andre

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

Campbell, Earl

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For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game.

Rice, Grantland

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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

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We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

Kennedy, John F.

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When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Martin, Jerry

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I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

Richards, Bob

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.