Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

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

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Westphal, Paul

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

10.

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

Laver, Rod

11.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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

19.

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

Proverb, Italian

20.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

21.

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

Saying

22.

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

Landry, Tom

23.

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 must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

25.

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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

27.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

28.

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

Leonard, George

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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 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 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

33.

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

Durocher, Leo

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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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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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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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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

40.

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

Horne, William Van

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Oerter, Al

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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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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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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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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