Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Ovid

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

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

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

Saroyan, William

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Martin, Jerry

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Riley, Pat

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Cauthen, Steve

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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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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

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

Campbell, Earl

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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

28.

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

Johnson, Patti

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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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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

32.

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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

34.

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

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

Morris, William

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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