Motivational Quotes

Competition

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

- Trevino, Lee

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Berra, Yogi

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Shakespeare, William

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Abbott, Jim

11.

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

Saying

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Becker, Boris

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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

17.

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

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

Martin, Jerry

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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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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

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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

29.

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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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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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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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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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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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

41.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Smith, Dean

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

Orpen, Robert

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Leonard, George

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

Witt, Katarina

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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

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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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How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Trevino, Lee