Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

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.

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

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Landry, Tom

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

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Lamb, Charles

17.

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

Johnson, Patti

18.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

19.

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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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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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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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

24.

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

25.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

28.

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Walsh, Bill

29.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

30.

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

31.

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

Ross, Ruth

32.

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

Campbell, Earl

33.

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

Kennedy, John F.

34.

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

Trevino, Lee

35.

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

Brock, Lou

36.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Ovid

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

Saroyan, William

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Westphal, Paul

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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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