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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
Competition Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Competition

1.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.
Hubbard, Elbert

2.
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

3.
I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.
Abbott, Jim

4.
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

5.
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

6.
The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.
Laver, Rod

7.
Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.
Gladiator's Salute

8.
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

9.
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

10.
The game isn't over until it's over.
Berra, Yogi

11.
You must play boldly to win.
Palmer, Arnold

12.
You get out in front -- you stay out in front.
Foyt, A. J.

13.
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
Shakespeare, William

14.
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
Clough, Arthur Hugh

15.
After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.
Proverb, Italian

16.
The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.
Horne, William Van

17.
My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
Roosevelt, Theodore

18.
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

19.
I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.
Oerter, Al

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.
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Proverb, Indian

22.
Most games are lost, not won.
Stengel, Casey

23.
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

24.
He can run but he can't hide.
Louis, Joe

25.
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

26.
When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
Martin, Jerry

27.
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
Jipcho, Ben

28.
Competitions are for horse, not artist.
Bartok, Bela

29.
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.
In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.
Ross, Ruth

31.
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

32.
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

33.
Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.
Guthrie, Janet

34.
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

35.
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

36.
When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
Shakespeare, William

37.
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

38.
Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Brock, Lou

39.
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.

40.
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

41.
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

42.
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

43.
Playing safe is only playing.
Olson, Chuck

44.
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

45.
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
Tarkenton, Fran

46.
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

47.
We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
Walsh, Bill

48.
The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.
Westphal, Paul

49.
When the game is over it is really just beginning.
Kramer, Jerry

50.
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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