Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Campbell, Earl

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Becker, Boris

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

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.

Proverb, Italian

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

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

12.

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

Hogan, Ben

13.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

14.

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

Durocher, Leo

15.

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

Trevino, Lee

16.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

17.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Johnson, Patti

21.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

22.

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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I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

Stenmark, Ingemar

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

25.

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

Geus, Arie de

26.

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

27.

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

Westphal, Paul

28.

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.

29.

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

Walsh, Bill

30.

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

31.

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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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

33.

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

Abbott, Jim

34.

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

Hoagland, Edward

35.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Laver, Rod

39.

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

Gladiator's Salute

40.

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

Cauthen, Steve

41.

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

Jipcho, Ben

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The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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