Motivational Quotes

Competition

Playing safe is only playing.

- Olson, Chuck

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Proverb, Italian

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

10.

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

Gladiator's Salute

11.

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

12.

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

Orpen, Robert

14.

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

Oerter, Al

15.

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

Berra, Yogi

16.

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

Beecher, Willard

17.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

18.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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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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

22.

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

Ross, Ruth

23.

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

Foyt, A. J.

24.

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

Martin, Jerry

25.

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

Brock, Lou

26.

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

Hogan, Ben

27.

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

28.

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

30.

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.

31.

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

Trevino, Lee

32.

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

Saroyan, William

33.

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

Cauthen, Steve

34.

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

35.

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

Laver, Rod

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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

37.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

38.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

40.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

41.

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

Ovid

42.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Saying

45.

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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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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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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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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I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Durocher, Leo

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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