Motivational Quotes

Competition

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

- Burrus, Daniel

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Leonard, George

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

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

Laver, Rod

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

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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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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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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

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

18.

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Landry, Tom

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Brock, Lou

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

Saying

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

Lamb, Charles

31.

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Hogan, Ben

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Abbott, Jim

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Martin, Jerry

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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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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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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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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Oerter, Al

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