Motivational Quotes

Competition

Most games are lost, not won.

- Stengel, Casey

Best Quotes about Competition

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

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

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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

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

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.

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

Durocher, Leo

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

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

Lamb, Charles

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Shoemaker, Willie

13.

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Foyt, A. J.

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Oerter, Al

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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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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Beecher, Willard

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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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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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Campbell, Earl

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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.