Motivational Quotes

Competition

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

- Bartok, Bela

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Berra, Yogi

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

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

Saroyan, William

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

Oerter, Al

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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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Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Beecher, Willard

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

Campbell, Earl

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

27.

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

Gladiator's Salute

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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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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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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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Becker, Boris

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

Ovid

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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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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

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Jipcho, Ben