Competition Quotes - Page 30

• My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Motivation

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• The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field, no bat, no ball, no skis, no skates. All other athletes have to use equipment, like a football. But I don't use anything in competition except myself. It's just me up there. Me alone. No coach. No nothing.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Football, Athlete

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• Onstage I'm always different than offstage. I can be very friendly offstage, but onstage I will pull one trick after another on my competition to wipe him out, you know-because it's my living and I have to win. Franco is my best friend, but I will do as much as I can to make him look bad and make me look good.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Motivation

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• My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Motivation

  "Arnold is legendary for body, politics in Iraq". staugustine.com. October 22, 2003.

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• It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, People, Expectations

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.151, Crown Business

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• I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated

  Emmitt Smith

  Sports, Winning, May

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• Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, School, Thinking

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• Battle... brings out all that is best.

  George S. Patton

  Bad Ass, Indulge In, Battle

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• Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Bad Ass, Idols, Beats

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• I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very important to get the audience on your side. As for a competition, you can't win without strong technical content.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Strong, Winning, Bad Ass

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• If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Motivational, Sports, Football

  FaceBook post by Fran Tarkenton from Oct 22, 2014

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• We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Law, Society

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.87

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• A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

  Briana Scurry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Sports, Famous Inspirational

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• Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.

  Don Cooper

  Motivational, Encouragement, Great Sales

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• This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. You're up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it'll be between you and Barbara. Don't be fooled. You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Careers, People

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• It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.

  Jonathan Horton

  Motivational, Gymnastics, Winning

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• Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

  Olga Korbut

  Sports, Kids, Gymnastics

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• What I like best is the competition itself.

  Elena Piskun

  Gymnastics

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• You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

  A. J. Kitt

  Inspirational, Sports, Acceptance

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• Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

  Ray Knight

  Sports, Funny Inspirational, Athlete

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• Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

  Anson Dorrance

  Sports, Volleyball, Player

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

  Rod Laver

  Sports, Games, Vulnerable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Running, Discipline

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• A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.

  Lester Thurow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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