Motivational Quotes

Competition

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

2.

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

Orpen, Robert

3.

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

Landry, Tom

4.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

5.

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

Lamb, Charles

6.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

7.

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

Lassiter, Luther

8.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

9.

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

Trevino, Lee

10.

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

11.

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

Brock, Lou

12.

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

Becker, Boris

13.

In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.

Ross, Ruth

14.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

15.

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

16.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

17.

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

18.

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

Foyt, A. J.

19.

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

Leonard, George

20.

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

Oerter, Al

21.

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

Abbott, Jim

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

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.

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

27.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Laver, Rod

29.

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

30.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

31.

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

Proverb, Indian

32.

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

33.

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

Witt, Katarina

34.

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

35.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

36.

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

Beecher, Willard

37.

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

Saroyan, William

38.

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

39.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

40.

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

41.

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

Walsh, Bill

42.

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

Sayers, Gayle

43.

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

Saying

44.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

45.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Wriston, Walter

46.

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

Horne, William Van

47.

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

Durocher, Leo

48.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

49.

Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.

Sheehan, Patty

50.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt