Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid

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

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

Landry, Tom

Richards, Bob

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

Johnson, Patti

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

10.

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''

12.

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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Riley, Pat

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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Horne, William Van

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

Westphal, Paul

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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 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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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

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

Oerter, Al

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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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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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We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Walsh, Bill

34.

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

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Orpen, Robert

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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

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Sayers, Gayle

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When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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