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

Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Johnson, Patti

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Leonard, George

World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition.Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.

Allison, Eric

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

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

Oerter, Al

10.

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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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

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Foyt, A. J.

14.

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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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 want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Witt, Katarina

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Riley, Pat

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Brock, Lou

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

Berra, Yogi

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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You must play boldly to win.