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

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

Saroyan, William

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

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

Becker, Boris

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

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Riley, Pat

The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

Horne, William Van

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

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

Saying

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Trevino, Lee

12.

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

13.

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

Berra, Yogi

14.

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

15.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

16.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

17.

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

Leonard, George

18.

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

19.

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

20.

My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

Roosevelt, Theodore

21.

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

22.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Proverb, Italian

24.

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

25.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

26.

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

Witt, Katarina

27.

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

28.

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

Ross, Ruth

29.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

30.

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

Hoagland, Edward

31.

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

32.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

33.

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

34.

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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Ovid

37.

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

38.

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

Brock, Lou

39.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

40.

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

Laver, Rod

41.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Westphal, Paul

43.

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

44.

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

Hogan, Ben

45.

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

Landry, Tom

48.

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

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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.