Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Oerter, Al

Crist, Reggie

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

11.

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

Ross, Ruth

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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

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Lassiter, Luther

18.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

19.

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

Riley, Pat

21.

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

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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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Geus, Arie de

27.

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

Horne, William Van

28.

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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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

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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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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

33.

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

34.

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

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

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

Becker, Boris

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

Hogan, Ben

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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

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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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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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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