Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Lamb, Charles

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Westphal, Paul

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Becker, Boris

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

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

Martin, Jerry

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

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

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

Oerter, Al

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Trevino, Lee

13.

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

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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

16.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

17.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

18.

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

Cauthen, Steve

19.

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

20.

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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

23.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

24.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

25.

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

Riley, Pat

26.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Tarkenton, Fran

27.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

28.

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

Orpen, Robert

29.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

30.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

31.

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

Johnson, Patti

32.

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

33.

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

Sayers, Gayle

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

36.

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

Lamb, Charles

37.

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

Saying

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

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

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

Campbell, Earl

40.

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

41.

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

Abbott, Jim

42.

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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

44.

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

Beecher, Willard

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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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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

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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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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Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.