Motivational Quotes

Competition

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

- Chamberlain, Wilt

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

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

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

Abbott, Jim

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.

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

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

10.

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

Laver, Rod

11.

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

Jipcho, Ben

12.

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

Orpen, Robert

13.

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

Landry, Tom

14.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

15.

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

Walsh, Bill

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

19.

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

20.

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 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

23.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

24.

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

Riley, Pat

25.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

27.

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

Berra, Yogi

28.

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

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

Lamb, Charles

32.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

33.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Saroyan, William

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

Sayers, Gayle

36.

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

Beecher, Willard

39.

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 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

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Cauthen, Steve

43.

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

44.

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

Becker, Boris

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

Ovid

47.

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

50.

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