Competition Mindset Quotes

When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.

I don't get grumpy at a 'Strictly' level, you understand. We're just making a television show - the person I'm dancing with can't dance; they're doing their best, and we're not going to win the World Championships.

When you're not winning, you're losing.

You've got to realize that in any competition there is always a winner and loser. When it turns out that you're the loser on a given day, you can be a graceful loser, but it doesn't mean that you're a loser in the sense that you're willing to accept losses readily. Concede that on that day you weren't the best and that you were beaten in competition. But that should make you more dedicated and hard working. It's wrong to accept defeat as a loser. Be graceful about losing, but don't accept it.

Training hasn't been consistent for the last week or so which was a bit annoying, but going into the competition I just had to get myself into the right mind frame.

Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.

It's something I have to remind myself about, that at every competition, I put a lot of pressure on myself, almost like it's the end of the world, and I have to keep reminding myself it's not.

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

If you're a true warrior, competition doesn't scare you. It makes you better.

When you make the playoffs, it's like you've done your job for the team. I've got that moment in my mind all the time, and I want to be there again.

I just need to be a good teammate if I don't get looks.

I don't feel as if I'm in competition with myself; not at all.

Being the competitive guy that I am, I can't get into individual battles like I have.

I don't really deal in trash talk too much. But I show my confidence.

When you win or lose, no-one dies: you win, or you lose.

Before competition, I always take an ice bath to make my body feel more refreshed. Then I always have coffee with a little cream and sugar. It's a superstitious thing.

Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.

If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

I've always felt like I'm a winning player. Like I deserved it to be in the playoffs - to be battling.

You have to go out there and focus on yourself and not who you are up against.

I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.

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

I don't need to practise. The only thing I need to do is build up my match fitness.

It's about how the players play and compete. I know everybody is going to equate that on winning or losing, like they always do, but if we play hard and compete well in the game .. then I think we are building on something.

There are too many people on horseback today trying to prove themselves, trying to prepare, trying to get faster. They haven't discovered yet that it's not the fastest who make it to race day. You only have to be the fastest of those who are left.