Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Johnson, Patti

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

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

Campbell, Earl

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

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

10.

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

Hogan, Ben

11.

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

12.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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.

14.

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

Durocher, Leo

17.

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

Brock, Lou

18.

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

Horne, William Van

19.

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

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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 person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Wriston, Walter

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Hoagland, Edward

26.

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

Trevino, Lee

27.

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

Jipcho, Ben

28.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

30.

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

Lamb, Charles

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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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ovid

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Berra, Yogi

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

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

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

Beecher, Willard

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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

45.

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

Gladiator's Salute

46.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Oerter, Al

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

Becker, Boris