Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Johnson, Patti

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Leonard, George

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Westphal, Paul

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Ovid

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

Oerter, Al

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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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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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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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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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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Becker, Boris

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.