Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Campbell, Earl

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

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

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Abbott, Jim

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

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

Oerter, Al

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Jipcho, Ben

15.

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

16.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

17.

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

Hogan, Ben

18.

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

19.

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

Saroyan, William

20.

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

Saying

21.

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

Witt, Katarina

22.

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

Brock, Lou

23.

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

Laver, Rod

24.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

25.

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

Ovid

26.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

27.

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

28.

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

Becker, Boris

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

34.

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

Westphal, Paul

35.

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

36.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

37.

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

38.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Trevino, Lee

39.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Gladiator's Salute

41.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

42.

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

Sayers, Gayle

43.

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

Leonard, George

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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

46.

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

47.

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

Berra, Yogi

48.

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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.