Motivational Quotes

Competition

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

- Chamberlain, Wilt

Best Quotes about Competition

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.

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

Oerter, Al

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Walsh, Bill

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

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Saroyan, William

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

Proverb, Italian

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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

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Witt, Katarina

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Ovid

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Hogan, Ben

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Saying

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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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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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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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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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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 only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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