Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Oerter, Al

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Oerter, Al

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Laver, Rod

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

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

Leonard, George

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Geus, Arie de

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

Shakespeare, William

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Saying

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid

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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

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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Horne, William Van

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

Foyt, A. 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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Saroyan, William

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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

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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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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

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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

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.