Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Oerter, Al

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Saroyan, William

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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

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

Gladiator's Salute

21.

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

Brock, Lou

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

Riley, Pat

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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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These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Orpen, Robert

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Hogan, Ben

33.

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Laver, Rod

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Johnson, Patti

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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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