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

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

Saroyan, William

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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

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

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

Sayers, Gayle

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Oerter, Al

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

Orpen, Robert

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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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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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Riley, Pat

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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

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

Foyt, A. J.

25.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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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 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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gladiator's Salute

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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 must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Horne, William Van

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

Campbell, Earl

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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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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

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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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Lamb, Charles