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

Oerter, Al

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

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

Abbott, Jim

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

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

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

Lamb, Charles

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ross, Ruth

10.

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

11.

How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?

Alexander, Barbara J.

12.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

Kennedy, John F.

13.

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

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

Becker, Boris

16.

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

Campbell, Earl

17.

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

18.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

19.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

21.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

22.

You get out in front -- you stay out in front.

Foyt, A. J.

23.

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

Landry, Tom

24.

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

25.

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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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

27.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

Saroyan, William

28.

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

Riley, Pat

29.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

30.

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

Witt, Katarina

31.

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

Hogan, Ben

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

35.

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

Berra, Yogi

36.

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

37.

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

38.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

39.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

40.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

41.

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

42.

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

Jipcho, Ben

43.

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

Geus, Arie de

44.

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

Horne, William Van

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

46.

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

Johnson, Patti

48.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

49.

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

Shakespeare, William

50.

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