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

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Cauthen, Steve

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

Lamb, Charles

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Saroyan, William

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Landry, Tom

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition.Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.

Allison, Eric

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

Laver, Rod

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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 play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Hogan, Ben

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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

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Lopez, Nancy

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

Geus, Arie de

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Johnson, Patti

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Becker, Boris

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

Campbell, Earl

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Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Beecher, Willard

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Oerter, Al

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Orpen, Robert

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Martin, Jerry

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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