Motivational Quotes

Competition

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

- Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Best Quotes about Competition

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

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

Abbott, Jim

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

Durocher, Leo

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

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Cauthen, Steve

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Sayers, Gayle

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Laver, Rod

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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

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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

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

Martin, Jerry

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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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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Becker, Boris

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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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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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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Oerter, Al

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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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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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 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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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Tarkenton, Fran