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

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

Ovid

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Horne, William Van

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.

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

Abbott, Jim

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Gladiator's Salute

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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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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

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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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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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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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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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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 game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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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

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

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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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Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Johnson, Patti

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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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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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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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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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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Westphal, Paul

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill