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

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

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

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.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

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

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Campbell, Earl

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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Saroyan, William

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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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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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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.

Hubbard, Elbert

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