Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Westphal, Paul

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Gladiator's Salute

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

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

Riley, Pat

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Horne, William Van

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Walsh, Bill

10.

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

11.

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

12.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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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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

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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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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

18.

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Ovid

21.

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

Oerter, Al

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 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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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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

31.

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Beecher, Willard

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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

39.

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Campbell, Earl

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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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 I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

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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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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