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

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Ross, Ruth

10.

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

11.

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

Saying

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Saroyan, William

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

19.

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

Berra, Yogi

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Kennedy, John F.

27.

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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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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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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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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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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

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Becker, Boris

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Oerter, Al

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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

42.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Horne, William Van

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Abbott, Jim

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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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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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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