Motivational Quotes

Competition

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.

Best Quotes about Competition

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.

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

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

Leonard, George

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

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

10.

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

Hoagland, Edward

11.

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

12.

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

Hogan, Ben

13.

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

Lamb, Charles

14.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Martin, Jerry

18.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Johnson, Patti

24.

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

Horne, William Van

25.

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

Abbott, Jim

26.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Beecher, Willard

28.

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

29.

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

Geus, Arie de

30.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

31.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Wriston, Walter

32.

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

Lassiter, Luther

33.

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

34.

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

Ovid

35.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

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

Brock, Lou

37.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

38.

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

Witt, Katarina

39.

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

Laver, Rod

40.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

41.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

42.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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

44.

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

Riley, Pat

47.

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

48.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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

50.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe