Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

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

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Landry, Tom

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

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

Campbell, Earl

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

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

10.

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

Ovid

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

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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

13.

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

Abbott, Jim

14.

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

Durocher, Leo

15.

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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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

17.

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

Cauthen, Steve

18.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Johnson, Patti

23.

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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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

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Jipcho, Ben

30.

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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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

33.

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

Berra, Yogi

34.

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

Oerter, Al

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

37.

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

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

39.

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

Riley, Pat

40.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

41.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Martin, 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

44.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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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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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

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