Motivational Quotes

Competition

Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

- Johnson, Patti

Best Quotes about Competition

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.

Kersee, Jackie Joyner

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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.

Agassi, Andre

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

Becker, Boris

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Sampras, Pete

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

Kennedy, John F.

10.

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

Abbott, Jim

11.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Tarkenton, Fran

12.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Durocher, Leo

13.

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

Sayers, Gayle

14.

Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Johnson, Patti

15.

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

Rapoport, Anatol

16.

After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.

Proverb, Italian

17.

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

Hogan, Ben

18.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Carnegie, Andrew

20.

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

21.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

22.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Riley, Pat

23.

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

Richards, Bob

24.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.

Howe, Gordie

25.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

26.

The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

Horne, William Van

27.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

28.

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.

Aragon, Vicky

29.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

30.

Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

32.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

33.

I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit.

Mansell, Nigel

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For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game.

Rice, Grantland

35.

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.

Holtz, Lou

36.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

37.

Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.