Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Walsh, Bill

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Campbell, Earl

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Horne, William Van

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

Laver, Rod

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

10.

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

Hogan, Ben

11.

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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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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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

14.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Ovid

16.

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

Beecher, Willard

18.

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

Proverb, Italian

19.

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

Trevino, Lee

20.

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

21.

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

Oerter, Al

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Foyt, A. J.

25.

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

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

Saroyan, William

28.

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

Saying

29.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

30.

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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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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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

33.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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.

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

Becker, Boris

37.

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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

39.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Durocher, Leo

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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

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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.