Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

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

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

10.

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

Ross, Ruth

11.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

Stenmark, Ingemar

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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

18.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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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

20.

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

Leonard, George

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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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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Ovid

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

34.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Landry, Tom

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

Saying

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Martin, Jerry