Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Lamb, Charles

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Leonard, George

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Ovid

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

Saying

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Ross, Ruth

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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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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Campbell, Earl

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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

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

Orpen, Robert

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Jipcho, Ben

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Johnson, Patti

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Sayers, Gayle

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Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Beecher, Willard

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