Motivational Quotes
Competition
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.

Best Quotes about Competition
After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.
Proverb, Italian
He can run but he can't hide.
Louis, Joe
Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Brock, Lou
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
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
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.
In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.
Ross, Ruth
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
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
Win or lose, do it fairly.
Rockne, Knute
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Jamieson, Mrs.
Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.
Guthrie, Janet
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
When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
Shakespeare, William
I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.
Abbott, Jim
When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
Martin, Jerry
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
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
Saroyan, William
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
I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
Hogan, Ben
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
Shakespeare, William
We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
Walsh, Bill
We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
Kennedy, John F.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.
Hubbard, Elbert
Competition is the whetstone of talent.
Saying
Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.
Gladiator's Salute
Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.
Johnson, Patti
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
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
I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.
Oerter, Al
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
And what is the greatest number? Number one.
Hume, David
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.
Becker, Boris
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
Durocher, Leo
When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
Sayers, Gayle
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
Knight, Bobby
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
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
Landry, Tom
The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.
Saying
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
These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
Orpen, Robert
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
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
Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.
Campbell, Earl
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
Chamberlain, Wilt
The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.
Laver, Rod
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Playing safe is only playing.
Olson, Chuck
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
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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