Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Brock, Lou

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Orpen, Robert

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

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Mansell, Nigel

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

Cauthen, Steve

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

10.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

11.

After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

13.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

14.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

15.

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

16.

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

Durocher, Leo

17.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

18.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

19.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

20.

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

Leonard, George

22.

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

Proverb, Indian

23.

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

Westphal, Paul

24.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

25.

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Walsh, Bill

26.

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

27.

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

Abbott, Jim

28.

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Horne, William Van

32.

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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Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Beecher, Willard

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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 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

36.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Lamb, Charles

37.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Lopez, Nancy

38.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Saying

40.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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

42.

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

43.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

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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

45.

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

Oerter, Al

46.

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

47.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

48.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

49.

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

Martin, Jerry

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