Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Competition

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Durocher, Leo

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

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

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

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

Walsh, Bill

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

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

11.

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

Oerter, Al

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

Beecher, Willard

13.

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

14.

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

Gladiator's Salute

15.

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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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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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

18.

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

Proverb, Italian

19.

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

20.

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

Foyt, A. J.

21.

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

Martin, Jerry

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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 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

24.

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

Ovid

25.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

26.

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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

28.

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

29.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

30.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

31.

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

32.

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

Geus, Arie de

33.

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

Riley, Pat

35.

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

Proverb, Indian

37.

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

38.

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Becker, Boris

40.

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

41.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Lassiter, Luther

43.

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

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Horne, William Van

48.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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

50.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry