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

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

Becker, Boris

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

Johnson, Patti

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.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Oerter, Al

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

Geus, Arie de

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Tarkenton, Fran

10.

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

Westphal, Paul

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

16.

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

Riley, Pat

17.

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

Berra, Yogi

18.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

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 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

22.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

23.

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

24.

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

Martin, Jerry

25.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

26.

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

27.

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

Witt, Katarina

28.

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

29.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

32.

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

33.

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

Trevino, Lee

34.

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

Landry, Tom

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

36.

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

Hoagland, Edward

37.

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

Proverb, Italian

38.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

39.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

40.

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

Abbott, Jim

41.

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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.