Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Becker, Boris

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third-best horse and win.

Aragon, Vicky

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

10.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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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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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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.

16.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

17.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

18.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

19.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

20.

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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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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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

23.

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

Campbell, Earl

24.

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

Sayers, Gayle

25.

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

Saying

26.

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

Martin, Jerry

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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.

28.

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

Riley, Pat

29.

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

Durocher, Leo

30.

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

Ovid

31.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

32.

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

Foyt, A. J.

33.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

34.

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

Orpen, Robert

35.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

41.

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

Berra, Yogi

42.

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Oerter, Al

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

Hoagland, Edward

47.

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

Gladiator's Salute

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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Laver, Rod