Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Shoemaker, Willie

Best Quotes about Competition

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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.

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

Laver, Rod

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

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

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

Orpen, Robert

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Beecher, Willard

11.

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

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

Foyt, A. J.

14.

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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Campbell, Earl

17.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

20.

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

Becker, Boris

22.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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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The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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

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

Oerter, Al

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

Ross, Ruth

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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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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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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

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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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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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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ovid

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

Saying

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

Kennedy, John F.

46.

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