The game isn’t over until it’s over…
Posted by nabil medawar in Quotations, tags: compete, competitor, competitors- 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
- And what is the greatest number? Number one.~ David Hume
- Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.~ Bill Bradley
- Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.~ Willard Beecher
- Competition is the whetstone of talent.~ Cometition Quotes
- Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.~ Henry Ford
- Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you’ll be sick.~ George Leonard
- Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.~ Leroy Satchel Paige
- Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed — there’s so little competition.~ Elbert Hubbard
- Differentiate your products, provide great service and don’t even think about trying to compete with Wal-Mart on Price.~ Michael Bergdahl
- Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.~ William Saroyan
- Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.~ Daniel Burrus
- 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
- I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them? ~ Leo Durocher
- 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
- 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
- I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.~ Boris Becker
- I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.~ Ben Hogan
- I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.~ Jim Abbott
- Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.~ Edward Hoagland
- Once you’re physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.~ Patti Johnson
- People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.~ French Proverb
- Playing safe is only playing.~ Chuck Olson
- Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.~ Janet Guthrie
- Running for money doesn’t make you run fast. It makes you run first.~ Ben Jipcho
- 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
- Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.~ William Shakespeare
- 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
- The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.~ Arie de Geus
- 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
- The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.~ Competition Quotes
- 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
- 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
- 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
- There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.~ Indian Proverb
- These are the days when it takes all you’ve got just to keep up with the losers.~ Robert Orpen
- The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.~ Mrs. Jamieson
- The time your game is most vulnerable is when you’re ahead, never let up.~ Rod Laver
- To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.~ Marguerite Beecher
- 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
- We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!~ John F. Kennedy
- When the game is over it is really just beginning.~ Jerry Kramer
- When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.~ Tom Landry
- Win or lose, do it fairly.~ Knute Rockne
- World records are only borrowed.~ Sebastian Coe
- 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
- You get out in front — you stay out in front.~ AJ Foyt
- You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- You must play boldly to win.~ Arnold Palmer
- 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
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