Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Leonard, George

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

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

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

10.

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

11.

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

Saying

12.

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

13.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

14.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

15.

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Carnegie, Andrew

16.

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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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

18.

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

19.

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

Walsh, Bill

20.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Shoemaker, Willie

21.

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

22.

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

Durocher, Leo

24.

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

Ovid

25.

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

Proverb, Indian

26.

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

27.

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 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

29.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

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

Martin, Jerry

31.

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

Lassiter, Luther

32.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

33.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

34.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

35.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

37.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

38.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Italian

41.

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

Ross, Ruth

42.

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

43.

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

Campbell, Earl

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

46.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Trevino, Lee

47.

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 step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

Sayers, Gayle

49.

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

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

Westphal, Paul