Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Gladiator's Salute

Best Quotes about Competition

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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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In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.

Ross, Ruth

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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

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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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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We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

Kennedy, John F.

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

Campbell, Earl

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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Ovid

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Riley, Pat

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

Proverb, Italian

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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 weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

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

Saroyan, William

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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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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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

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Abbott, Jim