Motivational Quotes

Competition

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

- Guthrie, Janet

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Beecher, Willard

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

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

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

Proverb, Indian

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

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

10.

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

Abbott, Jim

11.

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

Campbell, Earl

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How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?

Alexander, Barbara J.

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Proverb, Italian

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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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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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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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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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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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Becker, Boris

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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

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

Leonard, George

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

43.

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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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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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

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Gladiator's Salute

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William