Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Landry, Tom

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

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

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

Ovid

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

11.

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

Durocher, Leo

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lamb, Charles

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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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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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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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Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

22.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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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

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

Oerter, Al

27.

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

Proverb, Italian

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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

30.

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

Saying

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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Horne, William Van

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.

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Gladiator's Salute

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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 the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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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I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

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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

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

Saroyan, William

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

Witt, Katarina