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

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Saying

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Landry, Tom

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Becker, Boris

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

Oerter, Al

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

Ovid

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

14.

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

Horne, William Van

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Leonard, George

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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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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Proverb, Indian

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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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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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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

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

Geus, Arie de

46.

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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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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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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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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