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

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

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

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

Leonard, George

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

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

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

Abbott, Jim

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

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

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

Sayers, Gayle

10.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

11.

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

12.

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

Walsh, Bill

13.

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

Martin, Jerry

14.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

15.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

16.

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

17.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

18.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

19.

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

20.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

21.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

22.

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

Ovid

23.

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

24.

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

Johnson, Patti

25.

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

26.

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

Landry, Tom

27.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

28.

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

29.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Trevino, Lee

31.

The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

32.

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

Beecher, Willard

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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

36.

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

Proverb, Italian

37.

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

Geus, Arie de

38.

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

Oerter, Al

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Kennedy, John F.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Saroyan, William

48.

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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.