Motivational Quotes

Competition

He can run but he can't hide.

- Louis, Joe

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Ovid

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Cauthen, Steve

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

Oerter, Al

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

11.

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

12.

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

Landry, Tom

13.

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

Riley, Pat

14.

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

15.

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

Brock, Lou

18.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

19.

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Foyt, A. J.

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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

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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

26.

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

27.

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

Gladiator's Salute

28.

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

29.

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

Berra, Yogi

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

31.

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

32.

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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Westphal, Paul

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Leonard, George

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Wriston, Walter

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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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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

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, 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