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

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Carnegie, Andrew

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.

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

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Sayers, Gayle

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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

21.

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

Ovid

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

Berra, Yogi

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Johnson, Patti

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Walsh, Bill

30.

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

Ross, Ruth

31.

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

32.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Saying

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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