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

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

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Ovid

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

Durocher, Leo

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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Holtz, Lou

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

Laver, Rod

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Martin, Jerry

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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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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

18.

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

Berra, Yogi

19.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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.

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

Horne, William Van

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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Kennedy, John F.

28.

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

Sayers, Gayle

29.

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

Trevino, Lee

30.

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

Becker, Boris

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

32.

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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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 weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

35.

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

Foyt, A. J.

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

37.

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

Walsh, Bill

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

Riley, Pat

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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

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

Oerter, Al

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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

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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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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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 must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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