Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Leonard, George

Best Quotes about Competition

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Walsh, Bill

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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

Becker, Boris

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

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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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, 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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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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

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

Oerter, Al

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Lamb, Charles

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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Durocher, Leo

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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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

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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

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

Gladiator's Salute

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My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Lassiter, Luther

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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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Ovid

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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