Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Beecher, Willard

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Durocher, Leo

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

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

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Saroyan, William

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

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

Ross, Ruth

10.

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

Oerter, Al

11.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

13.

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

Orpen, Robert

14.

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

Becker, Boris

16.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

17.

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

18.

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

Geus, Arie de

19.

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

20.

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

Westphal, Paul

21.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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

24.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

25.

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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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

27.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

28.

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

Horne, William Van

29.

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

30.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

31.

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

Riley, Pat

32.

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

33.

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

Ovid

34.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

35.

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

Landry, Tom

36.

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 game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

38.

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

Saying

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Leonard, George

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

Witt, Katarina

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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

49.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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