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

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

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game.

Rice, Grantland

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Ovid

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

Beecher, Willard

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

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

10.

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

11.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

13.

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

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

Durocher, Leo

18.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

19.

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

Becker, Boris

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

Geus, Arie de

21.

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

Lassiter, Luther

22.

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

Landry, Tom

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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

24.

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

Trevino, Lee

25.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

26.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

27.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

28.

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

Westphal, Paul

29.

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

Lamb, Charles

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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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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Gladiator's Salute

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

36.

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

Berra, Yogi

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

39.

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

Walsh, Bill

40.

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

Horne, William Van

41.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Saying

43.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

44.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Laver, Rod

46.

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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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 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

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

Proverb, Indian