Motivational Quotes

Competition

Most games are lost, not won.

- Stengel, Casey

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Laver, Rod

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

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

Durocher, Leo

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

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

Horne, William Van

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

Becker, Boris

10.

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

11.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

12.

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

Foyt, A. J.

13.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

14.

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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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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

18.

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.

19.

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

Brock, Lou

20.

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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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

23.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

24.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

25.

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

26.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

27.

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

Cauthen, Steve

28.

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

Trevino, Lee

29.

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

Hogan, Ben

30.

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

31.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

33.

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

Beecher, Willard

34.

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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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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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saying

39.

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

Campbell, Earl

40.

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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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

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

Westphal, Paul

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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

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

45.

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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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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