Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Oerter, Al

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Westphal, Paul

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Saroyan, William

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game.

Rice, Grantland

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

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

Beecher, Willard

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 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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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Horne, William Van

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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

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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Johnson, Patti

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Most games are lost, not won.