Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

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.

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Cauthen, Steve

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Horne, William Van

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

Saying

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Saroyan, William

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Oerter, Al

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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

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

Landry, Tom

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Riley, Pat

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Martin, Jerry

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.