Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Laver, Rod

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Johnson, Patti

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

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Cauthen, Steve

11.

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

12.

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

Jipcho, Ben

13.

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

14.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

O'Neal, Shaquille

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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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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

17.

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

Trevino, Lee

18.

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

19.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

24.

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

Ovid

25.

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

Geus, Arie de

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Martin, Jerry

28.

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

29.

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

Sayers, Gayle

30.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

31.

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

Berra, Yogi

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Foyt, A. J.

35.

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

Durocher, Leo

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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

38.

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

Gladiator's Salute

39.

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

40.

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

Saroyan, William

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

Riley, Pat

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

Horne, William Van

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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.