Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Orpen, Robert

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

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

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Leonard, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Laver, Rod

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Walsh, Bill

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Crist, Reggie

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Saying

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

Becker, Boris

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

Riley, Pat

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.

Falcon, Joe

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

Foyt, A. J.

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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

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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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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 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