Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Walsh, Bill

Best Quotes about Competition

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.

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

Jipcho, Ben

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

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

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

Geus, Arie de

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

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

Morris, William

10.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

11.

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

Brock, Lou

12.

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

Saroyan, William

13.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

14.

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

Hogan, Ben

15.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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

17.

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

18.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

19.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

20.

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

Laver, Rod

21.

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

22.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Leonard, George

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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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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

30.

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

Proverb, Italian

31.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Westphal, Paul

33.

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

Landry, Tom

34.

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

Horne, William Van

35.

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Riley, Pat

38.

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

Campbell, Earl

39.

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

Becker, Boris

41.

Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

43.

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

Ovid

44.

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

Walsh, Bill

45.

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

Durocher, Leo

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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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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

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

Johnson, Patti

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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