Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Leonard, George

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Brock, Lou

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

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

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

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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 must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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

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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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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

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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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The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

Horne, William Van

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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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Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Hamill, Dorothy

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

Saroyan, William

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Oerter, Al

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Hogan, Ben

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Sayers, Gayle

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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