Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

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

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

Saroyan, William

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

Horne, William Van

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Proverb, Italian

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

10.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

11.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Saying

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For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game.

Rice, Grantland

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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

19.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

20.

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

Abbott, Jim

21.

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

22.

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

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When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

27.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

28.

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

30.

Lopez, Nancy

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.

Ross, Ruth

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

35.

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Oerter, Al

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

Berra, Yogi

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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

42.

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.

43.

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

Campbell, Earl

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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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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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Playing safe is only playing.