Motivational Quotes

Competition

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

- Jamieson, Mrs.

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Ovid

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Oerter, Al

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

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Landry, Tom

10.

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

Saroyan, William

11.

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

Foyt, A. J.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Campbell, Earl

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

18.

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

19.

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

Cauthen, Steve

20.

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

Laver, Rod

21.

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

Hoagland, Edward

22.

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

Westphal, Paul

23.

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

Becker, Boris

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.

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

Lamb, Charles

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Martin, Jerry

29.

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

Horne, William Van

30.

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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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

32.

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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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

34.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

35.

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

Shakespeare, William

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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

37.

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

Gladiator's Salute

38.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

39.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

40.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

41.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

42.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

43.

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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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

45.

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

Johnson, Patti

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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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To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.