Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Durocher, Leo

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Trevino, Lee

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

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Proverb, Indian

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Horne, William Van

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

Johnson, Patti

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Orpen, Robert

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Laver, Rod

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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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

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

Ovid

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Hogan, Ben

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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

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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

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

Leonard, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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