Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Saying

Best Quotes about 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

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

Tarkenton, Fran

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Campbell, Earl

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

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

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Abbott, Jim

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Leonard, George

11.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Durocher, Leo

12.

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

Horne, William Van

13.

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

Landry, Tom

14.

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

Ross, Ruth

15.

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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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

18.

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

Berra, Yogi

19.

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

20.

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

Oerter, Al

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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

22.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Geus, Arie de

24.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, Indian

28.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

29.

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

Saying

30.

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

Martin, Jerry

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Riley, Pat

34.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

35.

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

Westphal, Paul

38.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

39.

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

Foyt, A. J.

40.

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

41.

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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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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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

44.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Saroyan, William

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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