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

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

Brock, Lou

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

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

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

Johnson, Patti

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Durocher, Leo

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Trevino, Lee

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

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

10.

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Sayers, Gayle

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I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Horne, William Van

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

Oerter, Al

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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 the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Westphal, Paul

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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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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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

42.

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

Berra, Yogi

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Kennedy, John F.

47.

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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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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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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