Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

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

Saroyan, William

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

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

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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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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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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Cauthen, Steve

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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Campbell, Earl

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Hogan, Ben

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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

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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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

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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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Thank God for competition.When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.