Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Orpen, Robert

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Laver, Rod

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

Sayers, Gayle

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.

Howe, Gordie

14.

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

Becker, Boris

15.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

16.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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

18.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

19.

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

20.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

21.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

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

Saying

24.

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

Abbott, Jim

25.

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

Cauthen, Steve

26.

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

27.

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

Brock, Lou

28.

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

Beecher, Willard

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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.

30.

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

31.

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

Horne, William Van

32.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Johnson, Patti

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

37.

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

38.

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

Lassiter, Luther

39.

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

Lamb, Charles

40.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

41.

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

Oerter, Al

42.

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

43.

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

Campbell, Earl

44.

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

Westphal, Paul

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