Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Ovid

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

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

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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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

11.

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

Trevino, Lee

12.

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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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Saying

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

Shoemaker, Willie

20.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Saroyan, William

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

Ross, Ruth

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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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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Gladiator's Salute

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Campbell, Earl

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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

37.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Sayers, Gayle

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Riley, Pat

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

Brock, Lou

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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.