Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Sayers, Gayle

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Landry, Tom

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

Horne, William Van

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

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

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Orpen, Robert

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Martin, Jerry

10.

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

Witt, Katarina

11.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Westphal, Paul

13.

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Riley, Pat

17.

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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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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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Laver, Rod

25.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Geus, Arie de

29.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

31.

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

Oerter, Al

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

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

Lamb, Charles

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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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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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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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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

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

Hogan, Ben

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Kennedy, John F.

45.

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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Beecher, Willard