Motivational Quotes

Competition

Most games are lost, not won.

- Stengel, Casey

Best Quotes about Competition

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Abbott, Jim

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Becker, Boris

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

Saying

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

11.

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

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

Laver, Rod

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

Durocher, Leo

14.

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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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Gladiator's Salute

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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

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Ross, Ruth

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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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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Horne, William Van

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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.

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Indian

30.

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Foyt, A. J.

33.

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

34.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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

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

Brock, Lou

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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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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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When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Landry, Tom

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Leonard, George