Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

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

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Martin, Jerry

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Saroyan, William

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.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Horne, William Van

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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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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

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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

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Oerter, Al

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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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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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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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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Lamb, Charles

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

Riley, Pat

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Beecher, Willard

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe