Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ovid

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

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

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Tarkenton, Fran

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Riley, Pat

10.

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

11.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

12.

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

Laver, Rod

13.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

14.

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

Lassiter, Luther

15.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

16.

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

Sayers, Gayle

17.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Becker, Boris

18.

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

19.

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

Hogan, Ben

20.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

21.

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

Jipcho, Ben

22.

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

Landry, Tom

23.

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

Saying

24.

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

25.

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

Campbell, Earl

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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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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

30.

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

31.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

32.

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

Durocher, Leo

33.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

34.

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

Leonard, George

35.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

37.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

38.

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

Trevino, Lee

39.

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

Geus, Arie de

40.

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

41.

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

Abbott, Jim

42.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

43.

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

Westphal, Paul

44.

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

Agassi, Andre

45.

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

Proverb, Italian

46.

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kennedy, John F.