Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Becker, Boris

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

Proverb, Italian

2.

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

Laver, Rod

3.

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

4.

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

Horne, William Van

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

9.

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

10.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

11.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

12.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Trevino, Lee

13.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

14.

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

15.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

16.

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

Gladiator's Salute

17.

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

Campbell, Earl

18.

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

19.

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

Geus, Arie de

20.

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

Leonard, George

21.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

22.

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

23.

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

Kennedy, John F.

24.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

25.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

26.

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

Oerter, Al

27.

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

Riley, Pat

28.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

29.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

30.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Abbott, Jim

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Brock, Lou

34.

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

Jipcho, Ben

35.

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

Lassiter, Luther

36.

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

37.

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

Westphal, Paul

38.

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

39.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

40.

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

Becker, Boris

41.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

42.

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

Witt, Katarina

43.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

44.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

45.

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

Sayers, Gayle

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Ovid

49.

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

50.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.