Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Leonard, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

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

Ovid

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

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

Shoemaker, Willie

13.

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

Saying

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

18.

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

Brock, Lou

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oerter, Al

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Lamb, Charles

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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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The Law of Win Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.

Anderson, Greg

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Sayers, Gayle

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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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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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

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

Proverb, Italian

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David