Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Martin, Jerry

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Shoemaker, Willie

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Leonard, George

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

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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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

11.

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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Foyt, A. J.

15.

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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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I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

Richards, Bob

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

20.

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

Brock, Lou

21.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Abbott, Jim

25.

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

Johnson, Patti

28.

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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How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Trevino, Lee

30.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Ross, Ruth

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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.

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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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To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.

Beecher, Marguerite

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Hoagland, Edward

40.

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

Gladiator's Salute

41.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

Shakespeare, William

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Martin, Jerry

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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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