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

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

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

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

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Riley, Pat

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

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

Ovid

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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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Campbell, Earl

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Saying

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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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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

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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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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Walsh, Bill

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

Oerter, Al

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

Cauthen, Steve

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Johnson, Patti

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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

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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

39.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

44.

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