Inspire-U-2-B-Competitive

Encourage the Development of the Characteristics of the Hopeful: Competitiveness

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

- Jim Abbott  

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.  

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar  

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.  

- Andre Agassi  

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?  

- Barbara J Alexander  

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.  

- Eric Allison  

The Law of Win/Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way, let's do it the best way.  

- Greg Anderson  

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.  

- Vicky Aragon  

Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.  

- Gil Atkinson  

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

- Boris Becker  

The game isn't over until it's over.  

- Yogi Berra  

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte  

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.  

- Bill Bradley  

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

- Lou Brock  

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

- Earl Campbell  

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

- Steve Cauthen  

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.  

- Wilt Chamberlain  

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.  

- Charles Horton Cooley  

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.  

- Reggie Crist  

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.  

- Dwight D Eisenhower  

You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.  

- Joe Falcon  

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

- A J Foyt  

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.  

- Indira Gandhi  

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

- Arie de Geus  

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.  

- Oliver Goldsmith  

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.  

- Janet Guthrie  

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.  

- Dorothy Hamill  

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

- Edward Hoagland  

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

- Ben Hogan  

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.  

- Lou Holtz  

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

- William Van Horne  

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.  

- Gordie Howe  

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

- Elbert Hubbard  

And what is the greatest number? Number one.  

- David Hume  

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.  

- Misses Jamieson  

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

- Ben Jipcho  

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

- Patti Johnson  

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

- John F Kennedy  

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.  

- Jackie Joyner Kersee  

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

- A J Kitt  

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.  

- Bobby Knight  

When the game is over it is really just beginning.  

- Jerry Kramer  

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

- Charles Lamb  

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

- Tom Landry  

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

- Rod Laver  

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

- George Leonard  

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.  

- Nancy Lopez  

He can run but he can't hide.  

- Joe Louis  

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.  

- Nigel Mansell  

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.  

- Shaquille O'Neal  

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

- Al Oerter  

Playing safe is only playing.  

- Chuck Olson  

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

- Ovid  

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

- Leroy Satchel Paige  

You must play boldly to win.  

- Arnold Palmer  

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.  

- Harvey Penick  

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

- Indian Proverb  

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

- Italian Proverb  

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.  

- Grantland Rice  

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.  

- Bob Richards  

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

- Pat Riley  

Win or lose, do it fairly.  

- Knute Rockne  

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.  

- Pete Sampras  

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

- William Saroyan  

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

- Gayle Sayers  

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

- Saying  

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.  

- William Shakespeare  

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

- William Shakespeare  

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.  

- Patty Sheehan  

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.  

- Willie Shoemaker  

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.  

- Dean Smith  

Most games are lost, not won.  

- Casey Stengel  

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.  

- Ingemar Stenmark  

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

- Fran Tarkenton  

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.  

- Lee Trevino  

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

- Bill Walsh  

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

- Paul Westphal  

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.  

- Walter Wriston  

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