Motivational Quotes

Competition

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

- Guthrie, Janet

Best Quotes about Competition

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Durocher, Leo

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

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

Orpen, Robert

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gladiator's Salute

10.

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

11.

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

Horne, William Van

14.

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

Saroyan, William

15.

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

16.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

17.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

18.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

19.

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

Brock, Lou

20.

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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

22.

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

Saying

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

Laver, Rod

24.

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

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

Witt, Katarina

26.

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

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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

28.

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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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

30.

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

Westphal, Paul

31.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

32.

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

33.

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

34.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

35.

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

36.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Sayers, Gayle

43.

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

Hogan, Ben

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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.