Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Competition

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Abbott, Jim

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

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

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

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Riley, Pat

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

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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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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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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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Jipcho, Ben

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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Becker, Boris

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

Ovid

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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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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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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

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sayers, Gayle

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Beecher, Willard

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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

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

Martin, Jerry

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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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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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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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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

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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

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

Hogan, Ben

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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