Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Cauthen, Steve

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Gladiator's Salute

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Hogan, Ben

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

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

Saroyan, William

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

Campbell, Earl

10.

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

11.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

12.

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Riley, Pat

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

20.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

21.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

22.

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

Martin, Jerry

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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

24.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Saying

29.

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.

30.

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

Brock, Lou

31.

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

Foyt, A. J.

32.

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

Trevino, Lee

33.

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

Geus, Arie de

34.

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

35.

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

Johnson, Patti

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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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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Lamb, Charles

40.

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

Westphal, Paul

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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

42.

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Hoagland, Edward

44.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

45.

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

Ross, Ruth

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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 game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon