Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Trevino, Lee

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Shakespeare, William

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

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

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

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

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

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

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Saying

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Martin, Jerry

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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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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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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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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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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Durocher, Leo

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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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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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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Westphal, Paul

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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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.

Aragon, Vicky

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Foyt, A. J.

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I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

Richards, Bob

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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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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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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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

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

Berra, Yogi