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

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

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Shoemaker, Willie

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Berra, Yogi

11.

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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Ovid

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

Saroyan, William

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Ross, Ruth

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Leonard, George

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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

36.

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

Durocher, Leo

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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 weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.