Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

Orpen, Robert

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Durocher, Leo

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

You get out in front -- you stay out in front.

Foyt, A. J.

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ovid

10.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

11.

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

Lamb, Charles

12.

The Law of Win Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.

Anderson, Greg

13.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

14.

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

Horne, William Van

15.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

16.

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

17.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

18.

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

Ross, Ruth

19.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

20.

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

Kennedy, John F.

21.

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

Campbell, Earl

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

26.

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

Johnson, Patti

27.

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

Westphal, Paul

28.

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

Berra, Yogi

30.

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

Saying

31.

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

32.

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

Brock, Lou

33.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

37.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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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

39.

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

Walsh, Bill

40.

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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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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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 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

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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.