Motivational Quotes

Competition

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

- Burrus, Daniel

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Horne, William Van

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

Walsh, Bill

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Shakespeare, William

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Riley, Pat

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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

11.

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

12.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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

14.

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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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

16.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

18.

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

19.

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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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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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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

26.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Sayers, Gayle

28.

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

Hogan, Ben

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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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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

31.

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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

33.

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

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Laver, Rod

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Gladiator's Salute

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There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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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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One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

Rapoport, Anatol

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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Proverb, Italian