Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Hogan, Ben

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

Ovid

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

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

Westphal, Paul

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Ross, Ruth

10.

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.

11.

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

Hoagland, Edward

12.

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

Saroyan, William

13.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

14.

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

15.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

16.

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

Foyt, A. J.

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

20.

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

21.

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

Abbott, Jim

22.

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

Geus, Arie de

23.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

24.

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

25.

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

Leonard, George

26.

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

Witt, Katarina

27.

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

Becker, Boris

28.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

29.

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

Durocher, Leo

30.

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

Sayers, Gayle

31.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

32.

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

Landry, Tom

33.

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

Horne, William Van

34.

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

Gladiator's Salute

35.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

36.

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

37.

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

Cauthen, Steve

38.

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

Lamb, Charles

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

42.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

43.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

44.

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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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

46.

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

50.

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

Oerter, Al