Motivational Quotes

Competition

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.

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Martin, Jerry

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

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

Witt, Katarina

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

10.

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

Beecher, Willard

11.

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

Westphal, Paul

12.

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

Walsh, Bill

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.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

15.

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

Orpen, Robert

17.

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

Ovid

18.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

19.

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

20.

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

Kennedy, John F.

21.

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

Proverb, Italian

22.

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

Lamb, Charles

23.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

26.

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

Campbell, Earl

27.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

28.

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

Foyt, A. J.

29.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

30.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

31.

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

Saying

32.

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

Saroyan, William

33.

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

Oerter, Al

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Laver, Rod

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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.

40.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

41.

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

Horne, William Van

42.

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

43.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

44.

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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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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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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

50.

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