Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Goldsmith, Oliver

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Oerter, Al

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Riley, Pat

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

Campbell, Earl

10.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

11.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

Morris, William

12.

World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition.Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.

Allison, Eric

13.

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

Hogan, Ben

14.

The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.

Westphal, Paul

15.

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.

Laver, Rod

16.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

17.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Shoemaker, Willie

18.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

19.

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

20.

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

21.

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Cooley, Charles Horton

22.

Thank God for competition.When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

Atkinson, Gil

23.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

24.

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

Kennedy, John F.

25.

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

26.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

27.

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

28.

The game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

29.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

Saroyan, William

30.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

31.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

32.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Jipcho, Ben

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Gladiator's Salute

39.

There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there.

Gandhi, Indira

40.

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

Durocher, Leo

41.

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

42.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

Johnson, Patti

45.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

O'Neal, Shaquille

46.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Lopez, Nancy

47.

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

Geus, Arie de

48.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

49.

These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Orpen, Robert

50.

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