Motivational Quotes

Competition

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.

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

Trevino, Lee

2.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

3.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

5.

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

6.

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

Witt, Katarina

7.

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

Walsh, Bill

8.

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

9.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

10.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

11.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

12.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

13.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

14.

My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

Roosevelt, Theodore

15.

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

Saying

16.

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

17.

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

Sayers, Gayle

18.

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

Jipcho, Ben

19.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

20.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

21.

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

Campbell, Earl

22.

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

Martin, Jerry

23.

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

Lamb, Charles

24.

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

Landry, Tom

25.

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

Johnson, Patti

26.

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

Westphal, Paul

27.

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

28.

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

30.

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

Geus, Arie de

31.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Ross, Ruth

37.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

40.

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

Gladiator's Salute

41.

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

Horne, William Van

42.

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.