Motivational Quotes

Competition

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Laver, Rod

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

10.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

11.

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

Ross, Ruth

12.

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

Johnson, Patti

13.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Campbell, Earl

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third-best horse and win.

Aragon, Vicky

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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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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

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Oerter, Al

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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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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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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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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

29.

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

Trevino, Lee

30.

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Gladiator's Salute

31.

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Saying

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

35.

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

Beecher, Willard

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

38.

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

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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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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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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Saroyan, William

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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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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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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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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