Motivational Quotes

Competition

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

- Knight, Bobby

Best Quotes about Competition

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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.

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

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

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Horne, William Van

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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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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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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

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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

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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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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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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Martin, Jerry

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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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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Gladiator's Salute

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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

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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 must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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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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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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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

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Ross, Ruth

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

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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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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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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