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

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Riley, Pat

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

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

Cauthen, Steve

10.

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

Abbott, Jim

11.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

12.

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

Sayers, Gayle

13.

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

Ross, Ruth

14.

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

15.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

17.

The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

Horne, William Van

18.

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

19.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

20.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

21.

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

Brock, Lou

22.

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

23.

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

Oerter, Al

24.

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

25.

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

26.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

27.

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

Martin, Jerry

28.

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

Berra, Yogi

29.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Hogan, Ben

31.

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

Orpen, Robert

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

34.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

35.

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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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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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

38.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

Saroyan, William

40.

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

Laver, Rod

41.

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

Foyt, A. J.

42.

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

43.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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