Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Brock, Lou

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

Riley, Pat

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

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

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

Lamb, Charles

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

11.

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

12.

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

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

Laver, Rod

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Foyt, A. J.

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Proverb, Indian

22.

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

Geus, Arie de

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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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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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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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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

30.

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

Witt, Katarina

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

Saroyan, William

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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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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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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

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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.

37.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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