Motivational Quotes

Competition

Most games are lost, not won.

- Stengel, Casey

Best Quotes about Competition

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

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

Geus, Arie de

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Trevino, Lee

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Hamill, Dorothy

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

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Foyt, A. J.

10.

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

Saroyan, William

11.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

12.

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.

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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

14.

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

Beecher, Willard

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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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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Ovid

22.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Wriston, Walter

26.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

28.

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

29.

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Walsh, Bill

30.

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

Westphal, Paul

31.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Riley, Pat

33.

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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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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

39.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

40.

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

Becker, Boris

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