When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
- Topic: Competition, Goals
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The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any man or order of men.
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
I’m not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.
Never discourage someone who is working toward a goal, no matter their speed!
Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
