Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Westphal, Paul

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Hogan, Ben

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.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Lopez, Nancy

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

10.

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

11.

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

Landry, Tom

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

14.

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

Ross, Ruth

15.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

17.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

18.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

19.

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

Walsh, Bill

20.

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

Martin, Jerry

21.

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

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

25.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

26.

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

Lamb, Charles

27.

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

28.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

29.

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

Horne, William Van

30.

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

Abbott, Jim

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

33.

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

Campbell, Earl

34.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

35.

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

36.

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

Oerter, Al

37.

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

Laver, Rod

38.

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

Riley, Pat

40.

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

41.

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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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

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

Geus, Arie de

44.

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

Richards, Bob

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

Westphal, Paul

46.

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

Jipcho, Ben

47.

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

Trevino, Lee

48.

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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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

50.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck