Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Westphal, Paul

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Orpen, Robert

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Laver, Rod

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

Becker, Boris

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

Walsh, Bill

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Proverb, Italian

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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 game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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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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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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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Geus, Arie de

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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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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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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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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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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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Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Leonard, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ovid

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

Riley, Pat

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Oerter, Al