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

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

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Foyt, A. J.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

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

Oerter, Al

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Saroyan, William

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Gladiator's Salute

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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Proverb, Italian

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Leonard, George

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Kennedy, John F.

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold