Motivational Quotes

Competition

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Becker, Boris

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Horne, William Van

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Saroyan, William

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

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

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Hogan, Ben

13.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Trevino, Lee

14.

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Foyt, A. J.

17.

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Landry, Tom

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

Oerter, Al

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

Laver, Rod

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

24.

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

Westphal, Paul

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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

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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

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

Geus, Arie de

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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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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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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 game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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