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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Brock, Lou

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

Witt, Katarina

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Horne, William Van

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

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

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

Oerter, Al

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

10.

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

Campbell, Earl

11.

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

Proverb, Italian

12.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Geus, Arie de

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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

18.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Beecher, Willard

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Crist, Reggie

26.

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

27.

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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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.

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

Westphal, Paul

31.

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Gladiator's Salute

35.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

40.

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

Hogan, Ben

41.

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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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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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Martin, Jerry

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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.