Motivational Quotes

Competition

Playing safe is only playing.

- Olson, Chuck

Best Quotes about Competition

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Smith, Dean

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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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

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

Riley, Pat

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Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Jipcho, Ben

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

Lamb, Charles

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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.

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Leonard, George

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

Foyt, A. J.

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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

28.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Trevino, Lee

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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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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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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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

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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Cauthen, Steve

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Ross, Ruth

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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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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Shakespeare, William