Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

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

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

Saying

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

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Abbott, Jim

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

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.

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.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Orpen, Robert

16.

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

Campbell, Earl

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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

18.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Jipcho, Ben

19.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

20.

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

Horne, William Van

21.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Westphal, Paul

25.

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Riley, Pat

28.

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

29.

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

Durocher, Leo

31.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

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

Walsh, Bill

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

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

38.

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

Becker, Boris

40.

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

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Ovid

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

Foyt, A. J.

47.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Kennedy, John F.