Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Abbott, Jim

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

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

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.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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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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

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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Horne, William Van

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

Johnson, Patti

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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, 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

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

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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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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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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Foyt, A. J.

34.

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Ross, Ruth

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Riley, Pat

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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