Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Foyt, A. J.

Best Quotes about Competition

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

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

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

Gladiator's Salute

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Brock, Lou

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

Horne, William Van

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Riley, Pat

13.

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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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Ovid

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

Foyt, A. J.

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oerter, Al

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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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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

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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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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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