Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Horne, William Van

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Cauthen, Steve

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

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

Durocher, Leo

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Walsh, Bill

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Riley, Pat

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

15.

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

Gladiator's Salute

16.

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

17.

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

Orpen, Robert

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

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.

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

26.

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

Foyt, A. J.

27.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

28.

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

29.

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

Campbell, Earl

30.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

31.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

32.

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

33.

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

Witt, Katarina

34.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

35.

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

Landry, Tom

36.

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

Saying

37.

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

Beecher, Willard

38.

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

Horne, William Van

39.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

43.

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

Oerter, Al

44.

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