Motivational Quotes
Competition
I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.
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Best Quotes about Competition
Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.
Johnson, Patti
Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
Hoagland, Edward
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
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.
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
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
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
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
Tarkenton, Fran
When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
Sayers, Gayle
When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
Martin, Jerry
You must play boldly to win.
Palmer, Arnold
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
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
My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
Roosevelt, Theodore
I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.
Oerter, Al
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
Shoemaker, Willie
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''
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
I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.
Lassiter, Luther
We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
Walsh, Bill
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
Chamberlain, Wilt
Playing safe is only playing.
Olson, Chuck
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
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
When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
Shakespeare, William
Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.
Campbell, Earl
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.
Horne, William Van
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
I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit.
Mansell, Nigel
The game isn't over until it's over.
Berra, Yogi
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.
Hubbard, Elbert
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
Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.
Guthrie, Janet
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
Durocher, Leo
In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.
Ross, Ruth
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
Jipcho, Ben
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.
Becker, Boris
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
The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.
Westphal, Paul
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
Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.
Burrus, Daniel
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.
Geus, Arie de
And what is the greatest number? Number one.
Hume, David
I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.
Abbott, Jim
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
Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
Leonard, George
Win or lose, do it fairly.
Rockne, Knute
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