Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

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

Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hogan, Ben

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.

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

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Holtz, Lou

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

10.

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

Landry, Tom

11.

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

Berra, Yogi

12.

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

Lamb, Charles

13.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

14.

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

Ross, Ruth

15.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

16.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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

18.

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

Campbell, Earl

19.

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

20.

These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Orpen, Robert

21.

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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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Ovid

25.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

26.

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

Saying

27.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

28.

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

Johnson, Patti

29.

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

30.

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

Geus, Arie de

31.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

32.

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

Riley, Pat

33.

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

Horne, William Van

34.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

35.

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

Saroyan, William

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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

37.

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Gladiator's Salute

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

41.

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

42.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Abbott, Jim

46.

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

Westphal, Paul

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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