Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

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.

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

Saying

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

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Holtz, Lou

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Geus, Arie de

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These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Orpen, Robert

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

Ross, Ruth

14.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

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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 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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My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third-best horse and win.

Aragon, Vicky

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

20.

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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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

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Kennedy, John F.

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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Gladiator's Salute

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Wriston, Walter

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

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

Horne, William Van

32.

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

Campbell, Earl

33.

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Hogan, Ben

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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.

Beecher, Marguerite

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Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

Saroyan, William

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It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.

Crist, Reggie

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Smith, Dean

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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