Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

Geus, Arie de

2.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Hamill, Dorothy

3.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

4.

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

Proverb, Indian

5.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

6.

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

Ovid

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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

10.

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.

11.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Lamb, Charles

12.

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

Saroyan, William

13.

You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.

Falcon, Joe

14.

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

Durocher, Leo

15.

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

Campbell, Earl

16.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

17.

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

18.

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Leonard, George

19.

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

Becker, Boris

20.

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Walsh, Bill

21.

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

Horne, William Van

22.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

23.

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

24.

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

25.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Smith, Dean

26.

The Law of Win Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.

Anderson, Greg

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Italian

29.

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

Berra, Yogi

30.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

31.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

32.

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

33.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

34.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

35.

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

Foyt, A. J.

36.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

37.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

38.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

39.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

40.

I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.

Penick, Harvey

41.

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

Orpen, Robert

42.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

43.

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

Hogan, Ben

44.

I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

Stenmark, Ingemar

45.

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

Laver, Rod

46.

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

Cauthen, Steve

47.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

49.

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

50.

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

Kennedy, John F.