Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Westphal, Paul

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Proverb, Italian

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

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

Walsh, Bill

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

Hoagland, Edward

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

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

Lamb, Charles

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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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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

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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Leonard, George

19.

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

21.

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

Hogan, Ben

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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

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

Becker, Boris

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Orpen, Robert

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World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition.Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.

Allison, Eric

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Ovid

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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