"Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on winners and winning   

"Racing is a matter of spirit not strength."

Guthrie, Janet on competition   

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

Hogan, Ben on competition   

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

Ovid on competition
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"Competition is the whetstone of talent."

Saying on competition   

"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision."

Ali, Muhammad on winners and winning
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"Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little."

Allen, George E. on winners and winning
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"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing."

Ashe, Arthur on winners and winning
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"Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything."

Csonka, Larry on winners and winning
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"If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart."

Evert, Chris on winners and winning
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"Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident."

Kerrigan, Nancy on winners and winning
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"The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose."

Letterman, Alymer on winners and winning   

"All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else."

Lombardi, Vince on winners and winning
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"Winning is not a sometime thing; It's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time."

Lombardi, Vince on winners and winning
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"If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record."

Mckeithen, Jan on winners and winning   

"You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge."

Runyon, Damon on winners and winning   

"One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project."

Waitley, Denis on winners and winning   

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

Geus, Arie de on competition   

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

Foyt, A. J. on competition   

"For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream."

Smith, Emmitt on winners and winning   

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."

Ginsberg, Allen on insanity
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"Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on god
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on insanity
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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on lies and lying
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"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. on competition   

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

Becker, Boris on competition   

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon on competition
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"If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best."

Owens, Jesse on winners and winning   

"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. on competition
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"Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus."

Lewis, Carol on focus
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"I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes."

Slaney, Mary Decker on passion   

"For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about."

Waitz, Grete on practice   

"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."

DeVos, Richard M. on courage
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"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."

Harris, Sidney J. on ideals and idealism
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"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."

Wooden, John on sports
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"Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first."

Jipcho, Ben on competition