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

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

Becker, Boris

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

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Hogan, Ben

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.

Beecher, Marguerite

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

Horne, William Van

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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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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

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Martin, Jerry

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Beecher, Willard

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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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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.