Competition Quotes

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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… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
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… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
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
It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out. — Pat Summitt
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… — Larry Bird
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
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… — Evgeni Plushenko
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… — Thomas Carlyle
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.… — Unknown Author
Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena. — Anson Dorrance
Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires.… — Robert Collier
Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on. — Don Cooper
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… — Tina Fey
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… — Jonathan Horton
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… — Olga Korbut
What I like best is the competition itself. — Unknown Author
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… — Nelson Mandela
It's such a small place, not much to do but talk and listen. The men are jealous and the women all in competition. — Drake
What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition… — P.G. Wodehouse
The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition. — Andrew Carnegie

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