Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

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

Ovid

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

Horne, William Van

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

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

Oerter, Al

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

10.

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

11.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

12.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

13.

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

Foyt, A. J.

14.

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

15.

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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

22.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

23.

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

Cauthen, Steve

24.

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

Proverb, Italian

25.

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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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

Saroyan, William

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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

28.

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

Campbell, Earl

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Westphal, Paul

32.

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Gladiator's Salute

33.

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

34.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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

37.

In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.

Ross, Ruth

38.

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

Berra, Yogi

39.

When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Martin, Jerry

40.

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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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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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Jipcho, Ben

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

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

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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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

49.

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

Walsh, Bill

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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