Motivational Quotes

Competition

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

- Brock, Lou

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

Tarkenton, Fran

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Beecher, Willard

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

11.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

18.

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

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

Horne, William Van

21.

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

Johnson, Patti

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Riley, Pat

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Saroyan, William

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Laver, Rod

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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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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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.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Ovid