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

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

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

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Saying

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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

11.

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

Gladiator's Salute

12.

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

Berra, Yogi

13.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

16.

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

Becker, Boris

17.

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

Abbott, Jim

18.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

19.

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

20.

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

Martin, Jerry

21.

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

Proverb, Italian

22.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Ovid

24.

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

Walsh, Bill

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

28.

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

Saroyan, William

30.

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

Durocher, Leo

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

34.

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

Lassiter, Luther

35.

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

Ross, Ruth

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Leonard, George

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

Laver, Rod

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I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Oerter, Al

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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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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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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