Motivational Quotes

Competition

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

- Cauthen, Steve

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Becker, Boris

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

Proverb, Italian

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

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

10.

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

11.

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

12.

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

13.

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

Trevino, Lee

14.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

15.

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

Berra, Yogi

16.

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

Campbell, Earl

17.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

18.

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

19.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

20.

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

Orpen, Robert

21.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

22.

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

Saying

23.

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

Ovid

24.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

25.

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

26.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Beecher, Willard

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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

30.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

31.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

33.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

34.

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

Westphal, Paul

35.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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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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

38.

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

Landry, Tom

39.

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

Martin, Jerry

40.

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