Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Brock, Lou

Best Quotes about Competition

To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.

Beecher, Marguerite

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Horne, William Van

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Oerter, Al

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

Beecher, Willard

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

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Hoagland, Edward

10.

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

Ovid

11.

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

12.

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

Leonard, George

13.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

14.

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

15.

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

16.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

17.

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

Ross, Ruth

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Saroyan, William

21.

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

Sayers, Gayle

22.

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

23.

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

Durocher, Leo

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Landry, Tom

28.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

29.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

30.

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

Proverb, Indian

31.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

32.

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

Berra, Yogi

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, Italian

36.

When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Martin, Jerry

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Witt, Katarina

40.

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

Orpen, Robert

41.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

42.

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

Westphal, Paul

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

47.

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

Hogan, Ben

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